"Patience baby…" He told her gently as he kissed her lips before pulling back again.
He got up a little and looked at her aroused expression that made him want to ravage her right at this moment.
'Patience…' He told the same thing to himself. As he got up from his position, Wanda could see his shaft that was at full mast and seemed to be on the verge of tearing his pants.
She gulped with desire as she saw the erection. She'd seen it before and even now, she was a little apprehensive about whether it would fit.
Alex, oblivious to Wanda's dilemma, gently grabbed the leg that he was fondling just now. He trailed his fingers down her knee to her foot as he loosened the straps of her heel, pulling it away from her feet and tossing it to the side.
Gently putting her foot down in the snow, he grabbed her other foot, at this side, there was no slit in the gown so it ended up getting pushed up, revealing her milky white thighs as he took off her heel and tossed it to the side.
Each of his actions was making Wanda wetter as she just wanted to pounce on him but wasn't able to bring herself to. She had always been a recipient of his affection and it would take some time for her to act on her own. For now, she was just too overwhelmed by the sensations to do anything other than passively accept his affection.
With each of his movements, the heat in her abdomen rose to a higher level.
He trailed his fingers up her thighs as he finally grabbed her panties from under her dress. He took them off as Wanda stuck her legs together and brought them up to let him take them off.
He got back on top of her and started making out with her again as he continued teasing her body.
Soon he could literally feel Wanda squirming under his touch, every single action of his eliciting a cute yelp or moan from her. He could go on for hours just teasing her like that but even his patience had its limits.
Alex's hand trailed to her thigh as he moved to her inner thigh, close to her core. She'd tightly closed her legs so Alex had to wait for a few seconds before she loosened up enough to let him bring his hand to her core.
"Mhmm~" Wanda moaned into Alex's mouth as she felt a light caress from his fingers on her gushing wet pussy. When he'd taken off her panties, they were already drenched with her juices.
Alex dissolved his suit jacket and shirt and took off the watch that he was wearing. He was left half naked as he was only wearing his pants.
Meanwhile, he kept lightly teasing Wanda's entrance, priming it for his dick.
[Come on, Alex…] Wanda was getting desperate.
Alex pulled back from her lips just a little to show her a grin, "You're mine. Forever." He said as he kissed her lips, bringing his cock to her entrance and teasing it with the tip.
[Stop teasing me, Alex… Please.] She couldn't take it anymore.
[Say it, baby.] He wanted her to ask for it.
[Please… Fuck me. Fuck me, Alex.] Just as she said it, his cock started invading her snatch.
"Ahhh!" She pulled away from the kiss as she felt herself getting full while feeling some pain but it was overshadowed by the pleasure that she was feeling.
Alex slowly kept pushing in as he gave Wanda time to accommodate his girth. When he was finally fully inside her, something happened that Alex didn't expect. There was an uncontrollable and euphoric feeling that was going through his body as his cock was completely snuggled into Wanda's lovely pussy.
That was when he felt it. An authority. Something too obscure for him to understand without paying attention to it so he decided to ignore it for now and completely focus on the girl who was scratching his back with her nails at this moment.
"You're all mine, Wanda." He told her as he kissed her lips and started moving.
[Ahh… I'm all… yours… Alex… Ahh!] Wanda felt Alex toying with her nipples while he fucked her and kissed her passionately.
Soon the buildup of all that foreplay was here as Wanda couldn't help but squirt like crazy while convulsing in her spot.
Alex didn't stop, he kept going, uncaring of how much Wanda's pussy tightened around his cock. He could also feel that authority strengthening with each thrust that went into Wanda.
Wanda was incoherently moaning as Alex kept going. He decided to take it up a notch as a tendril extended from his pelvis and started teasing her clit as he fucked her.
There was a noticeable increase in the intensity of Wanda's reactions. Soon, she came again and tightly held onto Alex's body like a koala while convulsing and arching her back. Her hands were scratching his back while her legs were wrapped around his hips.
He could clearly feel her breasts while her stiff nipples rubbed against his chest.
"Let's change things up, shall we." Alex decided to change positions to one of his favorites. Doggy style. And that too in the snow.
He pulled out of Wanda's pussy as she whimpered with arousal and disappointment. It seemed that she wasn't done yet. Luckily for her, neither was Alex.
He grabbed the sides of her waist as he turned her around, putting her on all fours. At the same time, her dress disappeared.
"Alex…" Without the presence of the dress, she was feeling exposed, the cold wasn't bothering her as much as being exposed like this was.
He didn't say anything but grabbed her breast from behind and squeezed it before pinching her nipple. He rubbed his cock over her snatch again for a few strokes before pushing it in before Wanda had a chance to say anything more.
"Ahhn~" She arched her back at the feeling of being filled as she moaned with the pleasure that she was feeling.
Alex decided to mess with her a little as two tendrils extended into the ground and started making two lumps of snow rise up at the area of her breasts.
He was going to bury her breasts in the snow as he fucked her.
"Alex!~" Wanda's speech was slurred at this point as she'd climaxed again and when the snow started covering her nipples, she felt the cold suppression that Alex was providing reduce from her chest area. Most of her body was still warm, but her tits and nipples were feeling some of the biting cold directly as she couldn't help but get even more stimulated.
"Alex~ Take it away~" She whined and cried as he kept fucking her. The snow was making her feel very weird. Especially with Alex fucking her so roughly.
Though Alex didn't pay her any heed. He kept going at his own pace. Enjoying her insides while making her feel sensations that she'd never felt before in her life.
He didn't waste any more time and deepened his bond with Wanda too. His tendrils extended through Wanda's cervix as he truly invaded her. Wanda's eyes rolled back into her head as she orgasmed again due to that intense sensation.
He and Wanda kept going for the rest of the night.
…
It was almost sunrise as Alex held the naked Wanda in his arms and brought her back to the mansion. He didn't bother putting any clothes on her since she looked just so sexy while naked. Especially with his semen spread all over her body and face along with the hickeys that he'd given her.
He'd completely marked her as his last night. They'd been going at it till the morning and only when Wanda was completely out of it did the two of them stop.
As he walked, he finally had the chance to look at the authority that he'd gotten when he took Wanda's virginity.
'It's like some sort of control over Chaos energy…' Alex realized as he felt that his control over Chaos energy had increased by leaps and bounds.
Though he couldn't generate any himself, being close to Wanda meant that he would have an endless supply of Chaos energy. As she used more and more Chaos magic, her speed of generating Chaos energy only increased with time.
Alex had already been siphoning some of her excess energy that would get lost due to being unnecessarily released so this authority helped him immensely. He himself doubted that he would be able to generate Chaos energy himself without actually devouring Wanda. Something that he wasn't ever planning on doing.
'Maybe after the bond reaches the soul level…' Alex theorized.
He decided to quantify this new authority in the status panel.
‹Host of the Scarlet Witch›:: Allows the recipient of the authority to manipulate Chaos energy with a similar proficiency as the host— Wanda Maximoff.
[ «Skill Acquisition»
«EP: 12»
«EP Generation: 0.8/Day»
«Owned Skills: ‹Superhuman Grade Physique Creation (35 Tons)› ‹Enhanced 6th Sense› ‹Basic Lightning Manipulation› ‹Weak Magic Affinity— Mana Sense› ‹Host of the Scarlet Witch› ‹Lesser Heat and Sound Resistance› ‹Biological Manipulation› ‹Basic Matter Transmission› ‹Advanced Energy Transmission› ‹Camouflage› ‹Host Enhancement› ‹Devour› ‹Copy›»
]
'Just 12 fucking EP after so long…' Alex was still annoyed at the abysmal rate of increase of EP. Even though he'd found Earth-Z, where he could farm quite a bit of EP, it would take quite some time before that happens.
Laura was too weak in the grand scheme of things to do enough against the truly strong Abominations.
[ «Status- Host #4»
«Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 19%»
«Bonding Level: 2»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (1 Ton)—Chaos Magic (Chaos Shockwave, Chaos Beam, Sleep Inducement…)»
]
'7% increase in one night… I guess the emotional factor is a really big deal. This is also the first time that I've actually had sex with Wanda so there's that too…' Alex didn't expect the Bonding rate to increase so much in one night.
Nevertheless, Alex was extremely excited at being able to manipulate Chaos energy at the same efficiency as Wanda. This meant that he could help her train her energy better too.
"You're the best, Wanda…" Alex looked at the naked girl in his arms with a loving look as he kissed her forehead.
***
"Wanda's not up yet?" Natasha asked Alex as she was in the gym while warming down after her usual two-hour morning physique workout.
"She's getting some well-needed rest," Ale told her vaguely as he pushed Natasha's back. She was sitting on a yoga mat as Alex helped her stretch her sore muscles. She honestly didn't need to do this since Alex could passively rejuvenate her, but Alex felt that it was a nice way to take a break, not to mention that it would help him grope around Natasha's body. He might have access to her body at all times, but he could never be bored of her.
"Yeah?" She grunted a little with her reply.
"Yep, so we can cut short our training and go have some fun after we're done with our usual stuff," Alex told her his plan.
"What will we be doing?" Nat asked as he turned her around and put her in a different position to help her stretch.
"Oh, you know. The usual, I've got my eyes on a Mexican cartel that we could bust." Alex put her on her back and grabbed her leg, folding it and pushing it down to help her stretch her glutes. He brought his face real close to her face while pushing down her leg.
"Sounds fun. What next?" Her voice was just a little strained.
"Then I'll take you out to see a movie." Alex gave her lips a chaste kiss before pulling back and letting her leg go and grabbing the other leg.
"And then?" She was smiling.
"We'll get some dinner." Alex pushed her leg down to help stretch the other side of her glutes and brought his face real close to hers.
"Then?" She asked.
"And then…" Alex gave her another chaste kiss before pulling back, "Then I'll fuck your brains out to the point that the only thing you can think about is my dick." He told her with a tone that sent slight shivers down her spine while looking deeply into her eyes.
"So rough…" She said with a smile and gave him a narrow-eyed seductive look.
…
The training was cut short since Wanda wasn't there for the training. Alex and Natasha went to the jet for their so-called date.
Alex hadn't had the chance to do too many modifications to the jet since he didn't exactly have the materials that he needed. And he wasn't too keen on using his own body as parts for the jet. He'd been able to double its initial speed from that of a commercial jet and reinforced the plane as best as he could without the necessary equipment and parts.
Making temporary simple constructs like clothes was easy for him, but he wasn't good enough to be able to create a complete airplane yet. At least not a lasting one. The plane would fall apart once his mental energy got consumed and he stopped maintaining the shape of the constructs.
They hiked down to the location where Alex had parked the jet and the jet's stairs extended down as it came into their view.
"Milady…" Alex offered Natasha his hand as they reached the jet.
'I feel like I'm forgetting someone.' Alex had a vague feeling that he was forgetting someone. Someone who might be a little important.
'Eh, if I don't remember then it's probably not important.' He concluded and stopped caring about it.
"Thanks." She said as she held his hand and used his support to climb the stairs. She was wearing her usual combat suit since she knew they would fight the Mexican cartel. Also, Nat knew that it would be a matter of a second for her to change her outfit, courtesy of Alex.
"Where are we going?" She asked Alex as she took a seat in the co-pilot seat in the cockpit with Alex taking up the Pilot seat.
"Juárez, Mexico. We'll scout out the place and get some nice authentic Mexican lunch at the same time. We should be there within a few hours." He told her.
"Oh! I know this amazing place there. They have the best Enchiladas. It's amazing." Nat told him with a smile on her face.
"You've been there before?" He asked.
"I've been almost all over the world actually," Nat told him.
"Makes sense." Alex nodded and used the only method that he could think of to take off in this mountainous terrain.
A huge hand formed under the plane and threw it into the air like some sort of paper airplane.
"What the fuck!" Nat was halfway buried into her seat due to the inertia and wanted to scream but her voice was throaty at best.
[My bad…] Alex wasn't in a much better situation, but due to his higher physical stats, he could hold himself upright enough to ensure that the plane doesn't end up crashing after that headstart.
'Thankfully, nothing was damaged…' Alex sweated inwardly and was glad that he'd been covering everything with his symbiote body, reinforcing everything.
After they were stably in the air, Nat asked him, "Do we have to do this every time we go airborne?"
"Not really. I was just testing something. I had a better and safer way but it would take a while and this is better." He told her. He'd gone slow when he'd gone to get the specific ingredients for Wanda's Sokovian cuisine.
"Please don't do this again. I think I'm going to hurl…" She said while feeling nauseous.
"Don't you travel a lot?" He asked her and put the plane on autopilot.
"Yeah, I do. That should tell you how bad this was. I have spent a huge part of my life in an airplane. Motion sickness is an utterly foreign concept to me." She told him.
"I told you that I'm going to introduce you to all kinds of new experiences in your life. I never said that they would all be pleasant." He tilted his head at her with a cheeky smile. He was free now since he'd mapped their destination in the autopilot.
"Fuck you, Alex." Nat gave him the finger.
"Gladly." He grabbed her hand and put her extended middle finger into his mouth, sucking it as he looked directly into her eyes.
Natasha felt his tongue wrap around her finger and felt tingles throughout her body with his actions. Though she kept looking into his eyes, treating it as a challenge.
They both had a staring contest for a grand total of 2 minutes before Natasha finally averted her eyes from Alex's.
He smirked as he pulled back from her finger, enjoying the little victory that he just scored against Natasha.
"Come on, let's go watch a movie." Before Natasha had a chance to banter with him, Alex unbuckled her from her seat and stood up, offering her his hand.
"Sure. It's probably going to be around 7 hours before we reach Mexico." Nat grabbed his hand with a shrug.
"How do you know that?" Alex knew that she couldn't have had a chance to see the autopilot panes since he'd enabled it through the cyberspace of the plane. He had full control over the computers of the plane.
"I just do?" She asked innocently.
"I understand that you travel a lot, but this is bullshit," Alex said.
"Hehe…" She laughed cheekily at his disbelief.
"Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but it's going to be 3 hours." Alex's expression changed from disbelief to a smirk.
"How?" She was confused. She knew they were in Alaska and it should be around 7 hours to reach Mexico for the commercial jet they were using.
"I made some enhancements." He told her with a cheeky smile of his own.
They enjoyed the flight as they watched a movie and even went for a quickie while watching the movie.
…
"That's him?" Alex asked Natasha. They were both sitting in a cafe while discretely keeping an eye on a Mexican man with a thick accent. He was walking into his usual strip club.
"Yep, Juan Cuarto Terrones. He's the son of Cuarto Terrones, the leader of the main branch of the Mexican cartel here in Juárez." Nat said. Nat had quite a bit of information about the Mexican Cartel. She also knew that this guy regularly visits this specific strip club every day at this time.
"Cool, we can just tail him…" Alex said.
"You really don't know much about espionage, do you?" Nat had an amused smile on her face as she looked at Alex. She'd realized that he only seemed to be acting like he knew his stuff when he didn't know shit.
"Well…" Alex was embarrassed at being seen through. He lamented that he'd only found people with random professions and no one with any actual skill in this stuff. At least not yet.
He had devoured almost a thousand people till now and yet hadn't found anyone with the skill sets that he needed. That's why he had almost no information about the skills that Natasha was a master of.
"It's fine. If you were that perfect then it would be extremely uncanny. And you can always learn." She comforted him.
Initially, Nat had only been working with Alex's whims since she'd felt threatened by him while also being a little tempted by the power that he was offering.
Even now, she hadn't completely trusted him with everything. But he was slowly growing on her. She didn't mind the Wanda thing. Especially since she realized how much of a difference there was in Wanda's attitude from usual. He was helping Wanda control her powers and giving her the mental stability that she'd been lacking. Till now, Nat hadn't found anything that would give her any reason to suspect him.
Though even now, she'd been masking her surface thoughts since she didn't completely trust him with everything yet.
It was going to be very difficult for Alex to make her trust him completely. And the biggest thing was that he hadn't even realized that yet. He was just doing his own thing, not knowing that he was always being evaluated by Natasha.
He should be glad that he hasn't ever lied to her other than the reason for merging with her, Nat had always been vigilant with him while not even letting him know the situation.
"Let's tail him." Nat and Alex went to the car that they'd rented and started tailing Juan Cuarto Terrones when they saw that he'd left the strip club. Nat had ample funds that she'd hidden around which were completely inaccessible to anyone other than her and she was able to get enough money to get whatever they needed.
Soon, the guy turned off the highway to an empty area with a single road and nothing but empty fields all around.
"I don't think that we can follow him anymore without getting his attention," Alex commented.
"I agree… Can you camouflage the car?" She asked him.
"Sure, that works…" Alex was expecting a more interesting solution from Nat.
"What? You're disappointed?" She read his expression.
"What? No…" He trailed off.
"I'm a spy and espionage master, Alex. In another situation, I would've been in the trunk of his car and threatened him to take the car to the villa. I'm with you so I have the liberty to utilize the better resources that you provide. There is no situation where I would willingly go in guns blazing with no subtlety in my actions whatsoever." She explained to him.
"I guess that works…" Alex understood that his usual all-out style preference was the exact opposite of Natasha's subtle working style. She preferred going in with finesse.
"How about this? We'll sneak into their base of operations, map out everything and get all the information that we can get. And then we can go out guns blazing while destroying everything that's there. What do you say?" She offered.
"I like that plan." Alex was happy with that. He would get to learn about espionage from Natasha and he could enjoy a nice little bloodbath of murder.
'Maybe I won't kill them all…' Alex thought. He knew that he couldn't be as unrestrained in this world as he acted in Research and Farm Earths. Those places didn't have any presence of superheroes or at the very least, their presence was extremely minimal. But the MCU was different.
Alex camouflaged the car and they both kept going on their merry way.
Soon, they saw a large farmhouse on the horizon.
"That's the place." Natasha followed the guy to the gate of the farmhouse and parked the car somewhere discrete around the area. That was when they both got out of the car.
[Let's just talk through the telepathic connection.] She told Alex.
[Works.] He agreed.
[Follow me.] Nat told him and started looking around the perimeter of the estate. She was looking for an optimal entry point. At the same time, she took the initiative to explain exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it.
Alex realized that she was practically tutoring him about how espionage works. She gave him a description of why she parked the car at that specific spot and why she chose the specific place on the fencing to climb over.
'I may not trust him, but I am grateful…' Nat thought as she discretely looked at Alex's thoughtful expression after her explanation. Just as she was helping him with combat skills, she was also teaching him about espionage.
For now, their relationship was a give-and-take where Alex allowed Natasha to get stronger and Natasha taught him her skills. The regular wild sex was just a bonus in her opinion.
'He does feel amazing, though…' Nat loved the sex that they had.
They were in the estate.
[Let's not camouflage for now. Even if we get caught we can take care of it. Also, if we camouflage then I won't be able to tell you about my infiltration process.] Nat told him. She was practically using this as a training exercise for Alex.
[Damn, girl…] Even Alex was a little surprised by how confident she was.
Alex followed her around stealthily as Natasha kept giving him little tips that she'd gained from her experience as a master assassin and spy. Alex learned quite a lot of information from her.
'If I had this information when I was sneaking around The Bastion then it would've been so much easier…' Alex thought as he digested all the information that Natasha was throwing his way. And he knew that what she was telling him was just the tip of the iceberg and she had a treasure trove of information in her head with this knowledge.
Alex was almost tempted to directly read her memories but held himself back.
'I decided that I wasn't going to do that to my hosts…' He had set some boundaries with his hosts. The reason for this wasn't anything moral, it was more that it was necessary for him to have a good relationship with his hosts.
He was still exploring how his whole bonding levels system worked, but he was sure that at one point, the bonding would extend to a level beyond the physical and to the level of their souls.
Alex couldn't just use his hosts and tools and had to treat them with his genuine feelings. That was the only way that he could be able to truly grow with them till the end. And he didn't mind that at all. He didn't want some depressing life where everyone is no more than a tool. He wanted to love and care for someone with his heart.
[Heads up.] Nat alerted him. They had a guard approaching their direction and they couldn't hide anywhere nearby. She was hiding behind a corned as she peeked at the approaching assailant.
'3…2…1!' She mentally counted down as she waited for the guard to reach the perfect spot. Just as the guy stood right before the corner, Natasha's count finished and she grabbed the guy in a chokehold and grabbed his neck, twisting it and killing him soundlessly.
She made all those moves in less than a second.
'She holds back with me…' Alex realized as he looked at her skill. He realized that she utterly outmatched him in skill.
If she didn't hold back during their spars, then she would have him beat within seconds. Granted, he uses the exact same physical stats as her. Though that didn't demotivate him in the slightest. If anything, he was more motivated after seeing her level of skill.
[You've got to teach me all that…] He told her.
[Learn the basics first.] She chortled mentally.
[Yeah, yeah…] Alex grumbled. She'd been drilling the so-called basics into him ever since they started and he was getting bored.
An hour later they had mapped out quite a bit of the estate and finally stumbled upon what they were actually here for— Information.
They both reached the central server room where all of the cartel's data was stored. They were going to copy all of that data and then release it for the police to deal with.
Nat jumped down from the vent that she was crawling through and Alex followed after her.
'I'm sad that I can't admire that booty anymore…' Alex was sad. Going through the vent behind Natasha was an amazing experience. He had a first-class view of her toned ass at all times. Even though he had full access to her body at all times, these little things were something Alex loved to enjoy.
Natasha brought out a drive that she'd procured before they came here and plugged it into the terminal. Natasha had already programmed the drive with the necessary program and just as the drive was plugged in, it started copying the data. Alex didn't really need that data, but he also directly connected himself to the terminal and sent the data to the server that he'd placed in the Research Earth for future use.
'I think I might be a data hoarder…' He knew that this data was completely useless to him but he still kept it. The server in research earth already had multiple petabytes of data and it was approaching an exabyte.
"All right, you can now go all out." Natasha graciously told him as she put the drive into her pocket after it was done copying the data.
"Now we're talking." Alex had an excited smile on his face.
[Keep in mind that you don't provoke unnecessary fights. We've already got what we came here for. Now we just need to get out of here.] Nat reminded Alex. She didn't have any problems with killing but that didn't mean she took joy in doing that.
[I know…] He said.
This time Alex took the lead as Nat followed after him.
He kicked open the main door that led to the server room and elbowed one of the guards in the throat making him choke. Though in that time, the other guard at the door took action and sounded the alarm. Just as the alarm was sounding, Alex punched the guy in his stomach and grabbed his head before hitting it with his knee. There was s sick cracking sound as the guy fell to the floor with a bleeding skull.
He also took care of the other guy after that.
[I know I said that we don't have to be subtle, but you could've tried to not get the alarm sounded so quickly.] Natasha grumbled.
[Then how else would everyone know that we're here?] Alex asked with a genuinely confused tone.
[Haha… Whatever you say, Alex.] Nat laughed at his innocent tone.
Alex ignored her as two more people appeared through the corridor and started shooting at the duo of Alex and Natasha.
They both took cover while letting the guys shoot at them. Soon, the guys ran out of bullets and that was when they both how out of the covers and tackled both of the assailants.
Natasha took care of one guy, while Alex took care of the other.
That was how the next 15 minutes went.
…
"Holy fuck that was intense…" Alex was slightly shaken as he sat in the passenger seat while Natasha drove away from the farmhouse.
"Hahaha…" She was laughing her ass off while driving.
"Come on… How was I supposed to know that they would have an RPG?" Alex grumbled.
"Come on, you have to admit. Your terrified girly scream was funny. Hahaha…" Natasha, who had just stopped laughing, sharted cracking up again when she remembered it again.
"Whatever…" Alex grumbled with an amused smile. His reaction was understandable. An RPG is a weapon that directly targets both his major weaknesses.
"I had fun… Quite a bit of it to be honest…" Natasha told him her thoughts.
"Well, that's what we're here for." He said. There were here on a date. The Mexican Cartel was just unlucky since they ended up becoming targets for fun for them.
"Let's go get some dinner. I'm starving." Nat told Alex.
"Sure, we can go to that Enchiladas place that you were talking about." He said.
"Sure." Nat agreed.
…
As they were eating their food at the restaurant.
There was a banging sound coming from outside the restaurant.
A few seconds later, a red and gold armored individual barged into the restaurant and pointed his hands at everyone in the restaurant.
"Everybody out. Now!" There was the sound of his repulsors powering up.
'Tony…' Natasha realized who it was.
[Since your friend is finally here, I should make myself scarce…] Alex said in her head and Natasha noticed that everything on her table had been made to look like she was eating alone. Alex had disappeared before Tony had landed. He'd already sensed Tony's arrival beforehand.
This was another reason that they had a public date and did such high-profile actions. Natasha wanted to draw out Tony to talk. Her face was constantly masked but she knew that as long as Tony was using Friday, his AI, to keep track of her, she would be found.
Within seconds, the restaurant started emptying out and a minute later, the only people left in the place were Tony and Natasha.
"Nat…" Tony said through his mask as he looked at the only person that was left in the restaurant.
"How'd you find me?" She asked, taking off her mask. It was one of the standard issue Shield face masks that she always carried a few of.
"You weren't exactly hiding. More like you wanted me to find you." He walked to her as the armor that he was wearing started morphing into the triangular arc reactor on his chest.
"That's new…" Nat noticed.
"Nanotech. It's pretty fun." Tony commented as he took a seat in front of her.
"You didn't use it when trying to stop Cap…" She said.
"I was trying to stop him, not kill him. And I'd rather not talk about it. Anyway, it's not like anyone died in that superhero street brawl because there was no point in anyone dying. Everyone was actively holding back." He offhandedly commented but Nat noticed that he was sour about what happened in Siberia.
"What happened in Siberia?" She asked. She'd asked Steve but he'd refused to answer so she asked Tony. This was what she was here for. She wanted to know.
"Nothing much. I found out who killed my parents, ripped that bastard's limbs off, felt bad about Rogers, and left the murderer alive." He told her bits and pieces of the information.
"No wonder…" She realized the reason that Steve seemed so bitter when they talked. She understood that Tony must've been talking about Bucky and connected the dots from there.
"Yeah. So, why are you looking for me? And who'd your new partner? There are no records of him wherever I looked." He asked her about the person that she'd been seen with.
"Yeah, he's something of a ghost. I don't think you'll find anything about him." Nat told Tony.
"Ohh spooky…" He chuckled.
"How are you doing?" She asked with concern.
"How would I be doing, I'm doing perfectly fine…" Tony shrugged his shoulders as he answered her.
"That so?" Nat was skeptical.
"Yeah, I'm done with the Planetbuster and—" Tony was interrupted.
"Planetbuster?" She asked with some disbelief.
"Yeah. What? You thought that I'd make some shield? Pfft." He didn't play things defensively.
"Right… I'll leave it to your… better judgment." Nat's words conveyed her distrust.
"I hear cynicism. That's hurtful." Tony's tone didn't match his words.
"Right… I was just out to have some fun. Meeting you was a pleasant non-surprise but I should leave. I'd rather not have to deal with the locals." Nat said as she finished the last bite of her food and got up from her seat.
"Hold up." Tony grabbed her arm. Nat narrowed her eyes at him and Tony sheepishly let go.
"What is it?" She asked while sitting back down.
"That White Knight thing. What's the deal with that?" He wanted to know.
"You know too…" Natasha said, not surprised at Tony's revelation, "I wanted to help Steve without getting on the radar of the government. Though that ended up being useless after all…"
"Right… That's not what I'm talking about. And I don't snitch, it's hurtful to know how little you think of me." Tony said nonchalantly while looking around.
"My bad…" Nat was hesitant about it.
"You wanna tell me where you got enhanced?" He asked.
"It's… a long story. Let's just say I had some help." Nat didn't delve too deep into the origin of her newly received powers.
"You didn't become some test subject for Hydra, did you? It wasn't just your strength that was enhanced, you can literally shoot lightning and turn invisible. That stuff is well in the realm of superpowers if I have anything to say." He said.
"It's fine Tony. You don't have to worry. I'm still working on learning more about those powers so I'd rather stay out of the public eye for now. The Avengers will come together again when the world needs us." Nat told him.
"Sigh… Fine. I just wanted to know if you're doing all right. Ciao…" He got up from his seat and walked out, his suit morphing over him as he walked away.
[Finally…] Alex sighed as he saw Tony flying away.
'He already made the Nanosuit...' Alex noted to himself.
[You still wanna watch the movie?] Alex asked.
[Nah… Let's just go home… I have a feeling that things are about to get really hectic.] Nat didn't know but she was correct.
That night, they had quite a bit of spicy fun before they got back on track with their usual routine.
They spent the next week going back to their usual routine of training and lazing around.
…
Earth-Z.
With Laura.
"Haah!" *Smack* *Thump* Laura slammed Alex on the ground.
"Again!" She told him.
"Yeah… Yeah…" Alex was tempted to use his full physical strength to pummel her to the ground.
'Nevermind…' He decided not to and got up, taking a fighting stance.
A minute later, she slammed him on the ground again.
'This is infuriating…' Alex looked at Laura's amused smile and knew that she was enjoying this.
He still got up and continued their spar.
And another minute later Laura used his own weight against him and slammed him on the ground, sitting on top of his chest with that infuriating smile.
"You gotta try harder, Alex…" She taunted.
"Yeah?" Alex had had enough. He smiled and leveraged his full strength to turn and pin Laura to the floor beneath him, "Try not to taunt me so much." He told her
"Yeah? What're you going to do?" She asked with a taunting edge.
"I could do so much…" Alex's face was a mere centimeter apart from hers and he could easily kiss her right now but he held back. He wanted her to beg him for it, "But not yet. Let's continue training." He told her and stood up, offering her his hand.
Laura looked at him with a twitchy expression and grabbed his hand before getting up.
"I have a way that I might be able to rapidly strengthen you," Alex told Laura.
"What is it?" She threw a punch at him as she asked.
Alex dodged her attack and countered with an elbow strike, "I can devour and dissolve the abominations that we kill into pure Biological Energy. I call it EP." He said.
Laura pushed his elbow away and jumped back while throwing a kick at him, "And?" She asked.
Alex dodged her kick and got behind her before attacking the back of her neck, "I might be able to utilize that energy to strengthen your physique by dissolving EP into your body." He told her.
Laura did a frontflip on the spot and pushed away Alex's punch with her heel while her other heel was about to hit his chin.
Alex had to step back to dodge her attack, "Though I'd probably only be able to affect your skin. If I want to affect your muscles and your inner physique, I need to deepen our bond." He said.
Just as Laura's foot landed, she turned and her other foot which was still midair turned around to attack Alex's side, "Side effects?" She asked. She knew that this stuff didn't come without any cost.
Alex ducked under her attack and grabbed her leg, planning to disbalance her so that he could get a good chance to attack her, "You have to kill a huge number of Abominations, and overwhelming pleasure." He said and noticed Laura's cheeks turning a shade redder.
Instead of losing her center of balance, Laura shifted herself to her leg that was in Alex's grasp and climbed on his head, wrapping her legs around his face, "Killing and orgasms? Count me in." Laura wasn't shy and was anticipatory instead.
Alex was tempted to cut short the training and start devouring Laura's pussy that was right in front of his face right here, but he held back and instead slammed her on the ground before she could do anything, "Slut." He taunted.
Before he could slam her on the ground again, Laura let go of his face and unwrapped her legs while jumping to the ground behind his back, "I've been in a monitored glass box for quite a bit of my horny years. Forgive me if I seem desperate for carnal pleasures…" She said.
Just as Alex was about to turn around to face Laura who'd jumped down, he felt Laura grab his arm.
'Fuck…' He thought as he felt Laura grab his arm and slam him on the ground.
"Again." She looked at him with that infuriating smirk as she told him to get up.
-x-X-x-
Alex had spent the last week with Laura training and seducing her. And he was pretty successful in his opinion.
In that week, besides training for a few hours, Alex enjoyed whatever dates he could with Laura, given the circumstances.
They watched movies on Alex's makeshift TV that combined the usage of camouflage while pulling the data from the servers in Research Earth.
Due to the unavailability of food, Alex had to get creative and find other ways to feed Laura whose appetite was far beyond normal. Her dormant healing factor needed quite a few nutrients.
Though he could've just fed her tasteless nutrient solutions that he derived from his biomass, he wanted to do real meals. Although he still fed her nutrient solutions directly into her body through her skin. The level three bond was pretty useful when it came to that stuff.
In the end, he ended up transferring an edible tasteless element from Research Earth and coating it with his symbiote body. He then emulated the taste of the dishes. So, Laura felt all the experience of eating the food but didn't get any nutrients through it. It was just an experience thing.
That's why he had to give her the nutrient solutions. None of these bunkers had any supplies so he had to make do with what he had.
And today was a big day. Her dormant healing factor was finally awakened and was perfectly fine now.
Her current stats were pretty decent.
[ «Status- Host #7»
«Name: Laura Kinney (X-23) (Earth-Z)»
«Bonding Rate: 10%»
«Bonding Level: 3»
«Powers: Superhuman Physique (14 Tons)— Low Cosmic Healing Factor— Bone Claws (Vibranium-Adamantium Alloy)— Melee Mastery— Weapons Mastery— Espionage Mastery»
]
With the 10% threshold of the Bonding rate, she'd also started helping him generate EP. Alex realized that their bond being at level 3 impacted the Bonding rate's increase. The only reason that it had only increased by 2% in the last week was that he was playing it slow with Laura, they hadn't done anything more than a few intimate massages here and there.
This was why it took the full week to recover the dormant healing factor.
[ «Skills»
«EP: 17»
«EP Generation: 0.9/Day» ‹(Host #1— 0.2) (Host #2— 0.2) (Host #3— 0.1) (Host #4— 0.1) (Host #5— 0.2) (Host #7— 0.1)›
«Owned Skills: ‹Superhuman Grade Physique Creation (40 Tons)› ‹Enhanced 6th Sense› ‹Basic Lightning Manipulation› ‹Weak Magic Affinity— Mana Sense› ‹Host of the Scarlet Witch› ‹Lesser Heat and Sound Resistance› ‹Biological Manipulation› ‹Basic Matter Transmission› ‹Advanced Energy Transmission› ‹Camouflage› ‹Host Enhancement› ‹Devour› ‹Copy›»
]
They were just done with their training as Alex told her, "Your healing factor's back." He said with a smile.
Laura blinked her eyes for a few seconds while comprehending the meaning of Alex's words, "Really?!" She exclaimed as she jumped into his arms, giving him a tight hug.
"Really…" Alex smiled as he rubbed her back.
…
[Ready?] Alex asked her.
"Ready." She said as she looked at the doors of the bunker opening.
'I'll leave a magical anchor here so that I can find my way back here later on…' Alex thought as he cast a spell that radiated a unique frequency that only someone with Chaos magic could identify. With his Chaos magic capabilities boosted, he could do quite a number of things with it. It was a very versatile ability.
'Now let's hope that there's no Scarlet Witch on this earth…' Scarlet Witch was a Nexus entity. Which meant that there was only one of her in one universe. There may be more versions of Wanda in this amalgamation of different versions of Earth, but there was only one true Scarlet Witch and she should be on Earth-616 right now.
The version of Wanda that was bonded with Alex was very strong, but even at the peak of her power, she couldn't even come close to the true Scarlet Witch who is a Nexus being.
'Under normal circumstances, there can only be a single Nexus being within a universe… These guys are utterly overpowered powerhouses that have no equal other than a very tiny number of beings. At least within their universe. Now, who would be the Nexus being of this specific universe…' Alex knew that this clusterfuck of Earths was caused by one of the multiversal authorities of the Marvel Multiverse.
'Then again… This rule isn't exactly ironclad and may be broken. There may as well be multiple Nexus beings all around this clusterfuck of Earths.' He thought.
'Forget it…' Alex decided to forget it since he was having a headache when thinking about this complicated stuff. He was going to let things take their natural course.
He just wanted to enjoy his symbiotic life with his sexy and beautiful hosts, corrupting them with his depravity while also helping them get stronger so that they all could survive in the grand scheme of things.
He was willing to bet that even if the Wanda of this earth had that kind of power then she was most likely dead or extremely occupied for now.
'You know what… fuck it. I'm not risking it…' Alex decided to change his course of action and not make an unnecessarily risky move. He removed all traces of the Chaos magic from that spot and left a clone there so that he could track back to the bunker.
While Alex was going through his inner monologue, Laura was trying to think of what direction she should travel in. Alex had given her a combat suit that was reminiscent of the comics. It had a Wolvorinesque yellow and black color tone. Her skin-tight pants were half yellow and half black with a silver belt wrapped around her waist. She was wearing yellow boots and a yellow top that served as armor.
Her forearms had silver metallic gauntlets that worked to provide support to her forearms and suppress the vibrations of her claws if they collided with something hard.
[That direction.] Alex mentally pointed to the direction where he felt the presence of an abomination.
His Mana Sense ability had also grown after his increased capabilities to manipulate Chaos energy. Though his Magic Affinity was still Low since that ability was a universal magic affinity with all types of magic and just increasing the familiarity with Chaos magic wasn't enough to propel everything ahead. Although there was some increase, it wasn't enough to propel the ability to the next grade.
Laura started moving in the direction that Alex pointed her at. It was currently noon so there wasn't much of a chance to run into a large number of abominations. Especially since the weekly horde attack had already concluded two days ago with the Bastion's overwhelming victory.
For now, the number of abominations wasn't very high.
Soon, the lone ‹Grunt Class› abomination was in Laura's view. She didn't waste any time as she ran behind the abomination while Alex suppressed her presence using camouflage.
Sadly though, these abominations seem to have a 6th sense ability that allows them to perceive life-threatening attacks in advance. It worked similarly to Spider-Sense.
The abomination stepped back and dodged Laura's extended claw, swinging its arm at her in retaliation.
Now that her healing factor was back, her fighting style took a radical shift. Laura let the abomination swing its arm at her and swiped her leg at its throat.
Her foot claw slit the abomination's neck and it started bleeding, but at the same time, its swinging arm hit her side, flinging her away.
Laura got up while expecting to see its falling body, on the verge of dying, but what she saw surprised her. It was practically unharmed as the wound on its neck rapidly closed.
[How do I kill these dudes?] She asked Alex in disbelief as she dodged its tackle attack and swiped her claws at its back, only to see it heal up in the next second.
[The brain, Laura. Have you never watched a zombie movie or show?] Alex asked with disappointment lacing his tone.
[Oh, I'm sorry that my childhood was spent in a lab while being forced to endure torturous experiments while being called a fucking number for my entire childhood. I didn't have the time to enjoy movies before my so-called dad saved me. And after a few fucking years, I was captured again!] She practically snarled as she got angry and started angrily attacking the abomination, swiping its calves before cutting off its arm that was swinging toward her to attack her, and then plunging her claw into the back of its neck, cutting off its brain stem and finally killing it.
'I think I hit a nerve…' Alex thought as he saw her aggressive actions.
[My bad, Laura…] He said with a guilty tone.
[Yeah, whatever.] She stabbed the abomination a few times to vent.
[I'll show you all the movies that you missed. I'll let you live your entire missed childhood in this apocalyptic wasteland. I promise.] The empathetic connection could be both a boon and a curse. Feeling her desolate feelings, Alex was a little overwhelmed and impulsively promised her.
He said all that because he couldn't bear to see her sad like that.
'Yep, this is going to be the problem with higher level bonds… And it'll only get worse as the bond level increases.'
[I appreciate that, Alex…] Laura understood his efforts, [Also, isn't there a regenerative class too? Was this guy like that?] Laura asked Alex.
[That's the weird part. Those regenerative classes have an even more monstrous healing factor. The only way to kill them is to vapourize their entire bodies.] Alex told her with a solemn tone.
[How the fuck has humanity survived against these guys?!] Laura was in disbelief.
[People pull through in dire situations.] Alex said and continued before she could delve into the desolate situation of the world.
[I'll devour this guy and see what happens…] Alex said as a few tendrils extended from Laura's body and within seconds dissolved the Abomination's body.
[EP +0.01]
[We'll need to kill at least 100 before we can see any usable results.] Alex said.
[It's fine. I want to try something…] Laura said.
[Lay it on me.] He asked.
[I wanna start integrating some of your powers with my fighting style. You told me that you can manipulate lightning, I think it would be good if I can develop a fighting style that can utilize that ability.] Laura told Alex. They had gotten pretty familiar with each other recently and she didn't need to beat around the bush before asking for something from Alex. She knew that he was a straightforward symbiote.
[Bring your hand up and extend your claw.] Alex told Laura to bring out her Adamantium-Vibranium claw. He wanted to see how well her metallic skeleton could conduct lightning.
Alex had noticed that her entire skeleton was made of the metal alloy of Adamantium and Vibranium, similar to Wolvorine's. It would've probably caused a huge number of problems for her later in her life, but with Alex sustaining everything she wouldn't have to deal with what Logan did later in his life.
Alex channeled his electricity through her skeleton in a completely controlled manner— He didn't want to shock her— and extended it out through her knuckles and into her claws.
'It's perfect…' Alex thought as he looked at the sparks that were being generated from his extremely low output of energy. The efficiency of the ability was increased multifold with Laura.
[This can work amazingly. I'll form a telepathic trigger that would allow you to use my lightning manipulation with ease without having to ask me all the time. I'll be acting as support for you to use it so you don't have to learn how it works and can focus on its applications.] Alex told Laura happily. The only other person with whom his lightning manipulation was this good was Ghost-Spider Gwen and she had her own electricity ability.
Wanda didn't need this since she had Chaos Magic and Nerdy Gwen in the Research World also didn't need it since she wasn't a fighter.
Natasha was trying to develop a fighting style that incorporated the ability, but its efficiency with her wasn't very good. Alex theorized that a higher level bond would allow his abilities to work better with his hosts.
Alex finally felt like this ability might become a real fighting ability in Laura's hands.
[That works for me.] Laura agreed. If she always had to ask Alex then it would take too long even with the telepathic connection allowing instant transmission of thoughts. A trigger would work better.
[That direction.] Alex pointed her toward the next abomination's location. It was another lone grunt class. This was because he was focusing on looking for the ‹Grunt Class› ones. The main reason was that Laura had been confined for way too long and couldn't keep up with her regular training.
She could attempt to fight the ‹Buff Grunt Class› but all that would happen was that she would get her ass handed to her. She would have to fight a couple of hundred ‹Grunt Class› abominations before she could even think to face the stronger ones.
'I'm not even going to think how we'll combat the regenerative ones… I might need to get my proficiency up in Chaos magic for that…' Alex thought as Laura ran to the next abomination. It was another lone abomination.
He ignored the small groups for now since he didn't want her to get into a dangerous situation. Especially since Alex wasn't sure if he could bail her out of such a dangerous situation. Even though he'd gotten quite a bit of control over Chaos Magic, it wasn't enough to combat the abominations on a large scale. At best, he could kill one ‹Buff Grunt Class› before his reserves are finished.
Soon, Laura reached her destination and killed the abomination with some effort.
That was how their next hour went.
By the time Laura was at her 63rd lone abomination, Alex's EP had finally increased by a point.
He realized that killing normal people was completely meaningless. He'd killed and devoured tens of thousands of normal people till now and all that translated to in terms of EP was less than half a unit.
It was completely meaningless to kill normal people to get EP.
One might ask how he ended up killing so many people. The answer to that was that he was currently the president of the United States in Farm Earth. At the same time, he'd taken over the entire European Union in Research Earth. He needed quite a large number of resources to develop tech like the arc reactor and he had to pull a huge number of underhanded tricks to get those resources.
The good thing though was that he had a sample of the real arc reactor that he'd stolen from Tony's suits during the fight at the airport. So it should be marginally easier to create his own sustainable energy generator.
Though it was probably going to take a month or so. It was the same with the planetary shield. He needed quite a bit of time. The main reason for the delay was that his scientist was learning on the job. She was a specialist in Biochemical engineering and had to learn a lot of stuff on the go.
'Well, unless I devour an entire planet's worth of humans, there's no point…' Alex was tempted but he knew his limits. It wasn't physically possible for him to do that, at least not yet.
'Not to mention I'd drown in guilt if I killed an entire planet's worth of humans… It was so good when I didn't feel any of that shit…' The Level 3 bond was a big deal for not only Laura but also for Alex.
Those feelings of guilt and morality that he'd completely lost after becoming a symbiote were slowly coming back to him. He was becoming more humane and he didn't know what to feel about it.
'Forget it can't do anything—' His inner musings were interrupted by his 6th sense flaring.
[Laura! Dodge to the left!] Alex shouted in her head telepathically.
Without wasting a second, Laura ignored the abomination that she was attacking and leaped to the left.
It was a ‹Buff Grunt Class› that had ambushed her.
Alex didn't realize its presence beforehand since this guy was supposed to be around 50 miles away from this spot when he last checked with his Mana Sense. He can't constantly keep the ability on since it consumes his mana and he didn't exactly have an infinite amount of it.
That was why he sends a pulse of mana every time Laura kills the abomination which usually takes around 2 to 5 minutes.
'This guy crossed 50 miles in a minute…' Alex realized that this guy's speed was way too much and he might even catch up with Laura if she ran away at full speed.
[Laura, run!] She said to her as he camouflaged her to the best of his ability and used half of his current Chaos energy reserves to immobilize the abomination on the spot. Alex knew that this guy was pretty strong even for a ‹Buff Grunt Class› and he probably wouldn't be able to kill it.
He didn't risk it and had Laura run away at her full speed.
Laura was a master tracker so she was also able to cover her tracks as she ran away at full speed from the dangerous location.
'This one was the most dangerous one yet…' Alex realized.
They'd already had some ambushes when attacking the other abominations but this guy was the strongest one yet.
Usually, it's just another ‹Grunt Class› that they could kill, and even if Laura couldn't kill it, she could outrun it.
10 minutes later they were far enough away from that spot.
[I think we should go… back…] Alex's words lost their drive as he noticed something that terrified him in his mana sense's pulse.
[Laura, stop…] Alex stopped Laura from running.
[What is it?] She asked.
[I'm not sure…] Alex said in her head. He'd sensed a huge cluster of abominations with his mana sense. In normal circumstances, he would've told Laura to run like hell to get away.
But he saw something that spooked him. New abominations were practically spawning in this location.
'This must be some kind of nest like I theorized…' Alex thought.
[We need to do some spying. Turn right and move a mile in that direction, slowly. There's something that the both of us need to see.] Alex told her.
[What did you see?] She asked. She knew that he had a sensory ability that allowed him to see extremely far distances and that was how he kept guiding her to the lone abominations.
[Something that would confirm some of my theories.] He said cryptically.
[Stop being cryptic you asshole.] She said.
[You'll see it soon enough.] He didn't tell her what he saw.
[Asshole…] She mumbled.
[I could let you experience how I invade your asshole if you want.] He liked being crass with her. She was really open about everything and he usually made such jokes with her.
[Damn it, Alex, it's a serious situation.] She clenched her butt after Alex's joke. She knew that she didn't have any semblance of privacy when it came to him and he could really do whatever he wanted to her body whenever he wanted.
She just ignored it most of the time since otherwise she would always be conscious about it.
[Anal is just as serious to me.] He said in a solemn tone. Laura was fed up and didn't say another word to him after that.
After a minute of thick silence, "Pfft…" Laura laughed.
[There's my crass host that loves my weird shit.] Alex said to her.
[Whatever…] She said while shaking her head, [Where's this location that you're talking about?] She asked. She'd been moving stealthily and felt like she'd covered a mile in the direction that he mentioned.
[You're looking at it…] He told her.
[What?] She was confused, [Some kind of camouflage?] She asked.
[Something much better…] Alex told her as he cycled through the different types of visions that he could emulate. In every single version of those visions, nothing came up in front of Alex.
But he could distinctly feel the life forces of each of the abominations in the 'nest' as he swiped the location using his Mana Sense.
[Laura, I'm going to try something.] Alex decided to try to give Laura something similar to Mana Sense by pouring trickles of mana into her eyes.
[Okay… Hey! It's itchy…] Laura brought her hands to her eyes as she felt them itching.
[Don't.] Alex held her arms down.
[What are you doing, Alex…] Laura was feeling very uncomfortable with whatever Alex was doing.
'I guess I'll have to increase the bond level to extend to her eyes do this without letting her feel uncomfortable like this…' Alex thought as he stopped pouring mana into her eyes after he felt that she should be able to see differently.
[It's done. Open your eyes.] He told her after a few more seconds.
Laura fluttered her now bluish-green eyes open and was greeted with a wholly different sight.
Instead of the same wasteland that she'd gotten used to seeing, she saw a bloody wall in front of her. Looking around, she realized that it was a dome that was surrounded by completely red walls.
[What the hell am I seeing?] She asked Alex in her head.
[That's blood. Human blood to be precise.] He told her the eeriest fact about the wall in front of her.
[What!] She was just about to touch the wall, wanting to get a feel of what it was when she heard Alex's words. She abruptly pulled her hand back.
[Yep. Can you see through the blood dome?] He asked. He wanted to know the limits of the mana-infused eyes.
[No…] She told him.
[Makes sense. I'd have to pour in quite a bit of that energy to increase the capabilities of your eyes even further.]
A minute later, the bluish-green tint in her eyes disappeared, leaving the usual deep green color of her eyes.
[It's disappeared again.] She told him as her view changed from the visible blood dome to the same wasteland.
[It was only a temporary enhancement anyway. I'll have to constantly infuse the energy into your eyes to make it work…]
[Didn't you tell me that you can infuse my body with energy to strengthen me?] Laura seemed to have gotten confused between the different energies that Alex used.
[You're thinking about the Pure Biological Energy that I get from dissolving the abominations. I call it EP for short. I infused a different type of energy into your eyes to enhance them right now. That's why you felt so uncomfortable during the infusion process. EP infusion is going to be pleasurable all the way.] He clarified for her.
[What energy did you infuse into my eyes?] She asked.
[Mana. Magical energy. It's the only energy that these abominations can't resist.] He told her.
[Like Doctor Strange?] She asked.
[More like the Scarlet Witch.] He asked. This version of Earth wasn't ever shown in the comics so he had little to no information about this Earth.
[Wanda?] She asked.
[Kinda like her. Did you know her?] He asked.
[No, but I met her father, Magneto, once. The fucker bent my claws with his magnet powers. It was painful as hell…] She said.
[Ahh…] Alex didn't know what to say, 'I guess all Magnetos have some beef with the Wolverines…' He thought.
[We've gotten off track. Yes, it's mana like that. I can infuse it with your skin without letting you feel any irritation but your eyes are a no-go.] He told her.
[Why my skin?] She asked.
[If you remember, I've bonded with each and every single cell of your skin. It allows me to better work with your skin, but your eyes are separate and I can't do anything about the resistance to the external energy infusion. That resistance is the reason behind your uncomfortable itching.] He told her.
Laura looked to be deep in thought.
[So, what now?] She asked.
[We could either infiltrate this blood dome right now. Or do it sometime later when we're stronger. What do you say?] He asked for her opinion.
[I want to infiltrate it, right now… But I'm too weak to do anything to these guys. I can't even fight against ‹Buff Grunt Class› ones. Let alone an entire nest.] Laura knew her limits.
[I agree. We can retreat for now and come back when we actually have the power to fight against them.] Alex agreed with Laura.
He didn't tell her but this nest had beings far more powerful than the ‹Buff Grunt Class› abominations.
Separate from the four humanoid types that he'd classified, he'd felt another kind of abomination, animalistic.
‹Animal Class›:: Animals transformed into abominations that take the shape of that animal and enhance their capabilities to monstrous levels. Strength and capabilities depend on the power of the animal that the abomination is transformed from.
Lastly, he felt the aura of a being that seemed to be able to command the other abominations.
‹Leader Class???›::???
He didn't have any information about it and didn't even know if there were different kinds of ‹Leader Class› abominations.
'My information about these beings is lacking… If only the abominations that I devoured had any memories other than their instincts…' Alex lamented his lack of information about the abominations.
[Let's get back to hunting lone abominations. When we go back to the base, I'll infuse EP into your physique so that your physical stats can be enhanced.] He told Laura and pointed in the direction of another abomination.
Something that both Laura and Alex were ignorant about was a pair of eyes homed in on Laura's figure from the center of the Nest.
The being that was spawning new abominations was a living entity unlike what Alex assumed. And it had its eyes on Laura.
…
In Earth-65, Ghost-Spider's Earth, it had been about a week since Alex punished Gwen for her mistake by giving her the piercings.
He'd distinctly noticed the difference in her sensitivity after she got the piercings and he was enjoying his time with her quite a bit.
Her college was going peacefully while she'd taken a break from her usual Spider-Woman gig. She still showed herself to the public as Spider-Woman every once in a while, but it was just a symbolic thing. She just swung around for a few minutes and that was it.
At the same time, Harry Osborn had also disappeared from the map. After that one talk with Gwen, she hadn't run into him again.
She presumed that he was busy tracking down 'Spider-Woman'.
[So you're telling me that you once had a whole multiversal adventure where you met your counterparts in an event called the Secret Wars?] Alex asked with an incredulous tone as Gwen walked back home from the warehouse after training with Alex. He wasn't surprised by what she was telling him since he knew the story, but he had to act the part. She didn't know that he was already aware of quite a large part of her story.
[Yeah. I've experienced two multiversal events like that actually. The other was even before Secret Wars, it was a great hunt where a bad guy was hunting down all of the Spider-Totems in the universe.] She informed him expecting him to ask her about Spider-Totems.
[Spider-Totems?] He asked. He knew about it but he understood that she wanted to show off to him how amazing of an adventure she had so he decided to indulge her.
[I guess I should start from the beginning. There is the concept of a thing called the Web of Life and Destiny. It is basically the glue that holds the structure of the multiverse together. It's also the thing from which all the spider people in the multiverse derive their powers. That's why we are connected to the 'totems' of that Web of Life and Destiny. We can also be sort of called the totems.] She told Alex.
[I see. So that means that the powers that I've detected in your genome are actually all derived from the Web of Life and Destiny?] Alex played his part.
[Yep. If you could get me Bio-Electricity then it should be possible to awaken the other abilities that the others have. All spider people derive their powers from the Web, so theoretically it should be possible.] Gwen told him.
[I see… Can you travel to other universes whenever you want?] He asked. He wanted to know the status of Gwen's multiversal portal device that she must've gotten during the Original Secret Wars event.
That event had nothing to do with the incursions and destruction of the Marvel multiverse. It was something that occurred on a much smaller scale and was initiated by The Beyonder alone. The Secret Wars event that initiated the incarnation of the eighth cosmos was a wholly different thing.
[Well…] Gwen was a little embarrassed, [I used to have a portal device that allowed me to travel to other realities, but I lost it.] She said.
[What do you mean you lost it?] Alex asked incredulously. This time, his stupefied tone was as real as it could get. He would be extremely disappointed if she lost the device like some dumb klutz.
[I didn't exactly lose it… It was snatched from me… By the woman that depowered me.] She explained to Alex.
[Oh… Weakling.] Alex was merciless, though he was glad that she didn't drop it in some sewer and lost it.
[Hey. That's hurtful…] She told him.
[What exactly happened?] Alex wanted a detailed situation from her about what happened with her power loss situation.
[Well… I was out with my friends, my multiversal friends, Jessica, and Cindy. They are both Spider-Totems from 616— One of the other Realities. We were hanging out here when we were ambushed by SILK, it's an organization. On the surface, it's an anti-Spider-Woman organization that wants to combat me but it's much more than that.] Gwen didn't delve into the depths of SILK.
[Then?] Alex asked.
[During that ambush, we found out that the leader of SILK was the Cindy Moon of this reality. She wanted my portal device to go to 616 to do whatever… It was a long fight and chase that ended with my friends returning to their reality with the help of Reed Richards— He's an unbelievably genius kid. And can you imagine, he's just 13 years old at this point in time. Anyway, after that… I was then beaten up by Cindy-65, who'd disabled my powers. She then took my portal device and left. I don't know what she did after that.] Gwen left out quite a number of details like how Jesse Drew played a big role in the loss of the three spider totems against Cindy-65. Though those details weren't exactly very important in the current situation.
[So that's what happened…] He said and inwardly thought, 'Although this Earth is based on the Ghost-Spider from the comics, there are variances from the actual story, which means that this isn't the exact same world as Earth-65… Whatever, I guess there are a few divergences…' Alex didn't care much. He had more than enough of an idea about what kind of plots there are in a Spider-Man verse. Although he didn't know the complete and exact plot, what he knew was more than enough.
[Yep.] Gwen told him as she opened the door to her house.
"Dad, I'm home…" She called out but didn't hear any response.
"Dad…" She called out again as she went into her dad's room.
There were no signs of a struggle or anything anywhere in the house so Gwen was hopeful that her dad was just out for groceries. It was already night so he should be home right now.
That was when she saw a note on her father's desk.
'No…' She had a feeling of dread arising from within as she picked up the note.
"Fuck you!" As she was reading the note, she punched the wall in her house in her anger which would've easily made a huge hole. Alex helped out by covering the wall and preventing her from damaging it. She had a tendency to lash out whenever she was put through a shocking experience. Alex knew this very well.
[We should go there quickly, Gwen. He wants you. He doesn't care about Captain Stacy.] Alex told her with a calm tone and also helped Gwen calm down. The note was written by Frank Castle— The Punisher, who'd apparently found out Gwen's secret identity and threatened her to arrive at a specified location. Otherwise, he would kill her dad.
"God damn it…" Gwen cursed as she jumped out the window of her house. Alex automatically dressed her in her Ghost-Spider suit and camouflaged her.
'I doubt that The Punisher would kill her father…' Alex knew that the Frank Castle of this Earth was a good guy and was just working for Matt Murdock on a contract.
'All for a fucking personality test…' Alex didn't exactly like the Matt Murrdok of this reality. The guy was basically doing a 'power corrupts' social experiment and treating Gwen as a lab rat.
Gwen swung as fast as she could to reach the location that was specified by Frank in the note.
[Pay attention to your surroundings. This might be a trap.] Alex warned her.
[Yep…] She nodded. Just because she was in a hurry, doesn't mean that she was going to get reckless.
Soon, Gwen reached an abandoned warehouse in what seemed like the middle of nowhere.
She didn't waste any time before kicking open the door to the warehouse and entering.
"Punisher! Get out here!" She shouted, wanting to draw him out.
[Alex. Can you sense him?] She asked Alex. She knew that he had a much better sensory ability than her Spider-Sense.
He extended his Mana Sense, [It's not just The Punisher that I'm sensing I sense a total of 8 people in this warehouse. You, your father, The Punisher, Harry, and 4 unfamiliar presences.] He told her with a sense of amusement. As Alex had expected, her father was perfectly fine and was just kept in a room that was isolated.
Alex was interested in the development of the current situation.
Just as he told her about the situation within the building, Gwen tensed up and got ready for the fight of her life, knowing that she might have to combat 6 people simultaneously.
The next moment, a dense mist started filling the area around Gwen, and within a second it surrounded everything around her.
Gwen didn't waste any time and turned around to leave the building. She knew that if the mist had any harmful effects then she had to escape it. But as she turned around to leave the building, she collided facefirst with a wall.
"Ouch!" Her skull wasn't thick enough to break through a wall.
[Hahaha] Alex started laughing in her head which she promptly ignored in lieu of her current situation.
'This mist is messing with my perception…' She instantly realized. She tried to focus all her senses on trying to understand her surroundings.
At the next moment, a steel beam fell from the roof right onto Gwen's head.
Just as she was about to dodge, [Stay here, Gwen] Gwen heard Alex's voice in her head.
Though hesitant, she came to trust him enough to know that he wouldn't let her get hurt. She stayed on her spot and let the beam fall on her head.
'It didn't activate my Spider-Sense…' She realized just as the beam was about to hit her head.
She heard a noise to her side. The real beam had fallen on the exact location that she would've dodged at.
'This enemy has studied my movements…' She realized.
Just as she was musing, 5 more beams fell from the roof.
[Dodge.] These ones were all real.
Gwen listened to Alex's instructions and slipped in between the beams, dodging them. At that moment, her Spider-Sense started flaring.
She shot a web at seemingly empty air and grabbed a flying drone and used it to maneuver away from her spot. Three other drones had shot sharp knife-like projectiles at her location.
[Follow my guidance, Gwen.] This would be a good practice session for Gwen's Spider-Sense, but she had more important things to focus on right now. Alex decided to help her take care of the enemy who was most probably Mysterio, the illusion master that was messing around with Gwen's senses.
'I can always simulate a similar situation when training with her…' Alex had just gotten an amazing idea to train Gwen's Spider-Sense. It would also help him better his own 6th Sense ability. For now, Alex paid attention to helping Gwen get her father away from this place.
[You can deal with the enemies later. Let's get your dad away from here first. Then we'll deal with them. Okay?] He told her.
[Thanks. Alex.] She appreciated his concern for her dad.
[Follow your Spider-Sense along with my directions. Close your eyes. A lot of what you're seeing is an illusion used to confuse you. The mixture of visual and sonic disturbances causes your perception to get messed up.] He told her.
[Can you cover my ears too then?] She asked.
[Done.] He covered her ears. For once, it wasn't a kinky sensory deprivation play that made Alex suppress Gwen's hearing and sight.
Now, Gwen was using just her Spider-Sense and Alex's directions to navigate this place. She was dodging the attacks that Mysterio had thrown her way using her Spider-Sense and Alex's directions.
[You're now Camouflaged.] At the right moment, when she wasn't in Mysterio's view, Alex camouflaged Gwen so that she wouldn't be visible to Mysterio. It wouldn't work forever but should be enough to stall for some time which was all Gwen needed to rescue her father.
Hearing Alex's words, Gwen ran like hell according to Alex's directions and reached the room where her father was being held.
[I'll get him away from here. You can focus on the fighting.] Alex told her as he split a part of his body from Gwen and slithered through the walls and into the room where George Stacy was held.
[Thanks Alex…] Gwen thanked him again.
[Stop thanking me all the time and focus on your fight.] Alex told her. He'd already reached the knocked-out Captain Stacy and taken control of his body. Alex was going to get him away under Camouflage when he gets the chance.
"You really are useless, aren't you, Quentin?" There was another voice that mocked Mysterio. That was when Gwen's Spider-Sense started flaring crazily.