As Wanda followed the unknown sorceress into the place, she was greeted by the archaic architecture of Kamar Taj with the walls filled with murals and certain areas being separated by criss-cross patterned walls, "Yeah, this interior seems more like what I expected when I came here…" She commented while looking around.
"Please don't be disrespectful, Miss Avenger." The sorceress said her first conversational words to Wanda since their initial meeting.
"Oh, you do know. I was wondering about that…" Wanda didn't seem surprised that her identity was known. All of the Avengers were very high profile, "I hope you aren't going to call the authorities…" She said nonchalantly and unthreateningly. She wouldn't care if they did tell on her, she would be gone before they realized it.
"We would rather not have foreign invaders inside Kamar Taj." The sorceress said as she stopped in front of a door, "Inside, you will meet the master of Kamar Taj." She didn't show any sign of entering and gestured for Wanda to enter.
Wanda shrugged and pushed open the door. As she walked in, she saw a bald relatively chubby man sitting on what seemed like a tatami mat while drinking tea, "Hello there…" Wanda felt a little awkward disturbing the master's tea break.
"Miss Maximoff." The man said.
"Master…" Wanda trailed off, hoping that the man would give her his name.
"I am Wong. You can refer to me as Master Wong. I am a Master of the Mystic Arts. Please, do tell, what brings you to our humble abode?" Wong asked as he put down the tea and stood up.
"Well, this may sound weird, but my power led me here…" Wanda trailed off while feeling awkward, "I felt like many of my questions would be answered if I came here…" She said seriously while ignoring Alex who was laughing in her head.
"Well, I can't say you are the first one to come here seeking answers." Wong shrugged, "I'm already aware of your potential with magic, so I'm going to skip the testing phase and just accept you in. I'll call in one of the disciples and they'll take you to your dorm where you can settle in." He informed her before calling someone in.
…
"This is the wifi password." The man handed Wanda a piece of paper and said, "Please be up at 8 tomorrow morning, Master Wong will be introducing you to the Sorcerer Supreme along with your mentor." He told her before hesitating for a moment.
"What is it?" Wanda noticed that man's hesitation.
"I don't know if it's appropriate but, can I get your autograph? I'm a big fan…" He said with some embarrassment.
"Oh…" Wanda almost laughed at the man's embarrassment and said, "It's no problem. Do you have something for me to sign?" She asked.
He handed her a card that had what was presumably a fanart of her fighting some of Ultron's robots, "This is so nice…" She gushed as she noticed that it was hand-drawn. Conjuring a pen to sign the card, she handed it back to him.
The guy who was just about to hand her a pen stopped in the middle of his actions, "Thank you." He happily took back the card.
"It's no problem," Wanda smiled dismissively.
"I won't take up much more of your time…" He said before stepping out of the dorm.
"He was so nice…" Wanda said with an edge to her tone.
[Then why don't you bond with him then…] Alex grumbled.
[Is my Alex jealous.] Wanda said with a teasing tone as she fell down on the bed with one of her legs hanging from the side and touching the ground.
[Not really. I'm just satisfying your attempt to make me jealous. Empathetic bond, remember?] He said with a laugh.
[No fun…] Wanda pouted before saying, [This was surprisingly easy…]
[I know, right? It felt a bit too easy, honesty.] Alex agreed with her.
[It's good enough really. As long as they can give us access to the library, I think it will be more than enough.] Wanda told him as she sat up and pulled her laptop out. She wanted to browse some movies to watch. She wouldn't be having her initiation until tomorrow and since Alex couldn't come out, she didn't have anything better to do.
…
The next morning, "Miss Wanda Maximoff." Wanda was greeted by a tall man with a goatee.
"You must be the Sorcerer Supreme." Wanda greeted Dr. Strange with a little smile as the man gave her an apprehensive look. It was as if he could feel her limitless energy and potential.
"May I know why you are here?" He was still polite to her.
"As I told Wong yesterday. My powers led me to this place and I felt that I may be able to get some answers about myself and my powers. I call it a journey of self-discovery and that's the truth." Wanda told them the half-truth. She just needed to hide Alex's presence.
"I can't tell if you're lying or not." Strange thought for a moment, "Fine, you will be assigned a master who will give you some of your basic training. You will also have access to the library which will allow you to take your knowledge beyond what your master will be teaching you." He sighed.
"I appreciate your trust." Wanda nodded.
"Don't make me regret it," He said, "Your power… It's something I cannot currently fathom… I don't think you'll ever need to siphon energy off of dimensions to cast spells. I hope you can use them for good." Strange looked at her with an imploring look.
"Of course. I'm an Avenger. The team might be going through a rough patch, but that doesn't mean I've suddenly become a mass murderer." She said.
"Good." He nodded, "Try not to make a mess. I'd rather not have to take care of you." Strange said with a deep tone before casting a portal and walking through it.
"He's new, isn't he?" Wanda asked Wong with an amused smile. She'd dealt with extremely talented leaders like Fury and Steve who have literal decades of experience. Strange's inexperience in leadership was easily visible to her.
"It's just been a month or so." Wong nodded with a flat expression.
"Called it…" Wanda was happy that she was able to gauge it, "Can we get started with training?" She asked Wong.
"I won't be teaching you. You will be taught by her," Wong moved to the side and revealed a figure that was clad in similar robes as him, "Meet Master Lily. She will be teaching you the basics." He said.
"Hello." Wanda waved in greeting.
"Please follow me, Miss Maximoff." She said and turned around.
"She doesn't speak much," Wong told Wanda before leaving too. Wanda hurriedly followed Lily.
She tried to make some conversation, "So how long have you been here?"
Receiving no response, Wanda also went quiet.
"Almost 40 years," Lily answered after quite a while. By then they had reached some sort of storage area by what Wanda could deduce, "Wait here." Lily went inside, leaving Wanda outside.
[She's weird…] Alex commented.
[I think she just didn't answer till the last moment because she didn't want to talk, but then she told me because she didn't want to come off as rude…] Wanda thought amusedly.
[When did you start analyzing people so deeply? First, it was the Sorcerer Supreme and now it's this Lily chick?] Alex asked curiously.
[I don't know. I can roughly feel the emotions…wafting off of people. If that makes any sense.] She told him.
[So you're like an empathetic dog?] Alex asked with a suppressed laugh.
[I'll show you an empathetic dog.] Wanda threatened with a twitchy expression on her face.
Before Alex could reply, "Is everything okay?" Lily had come out and noticed Wanda's expression.
"Nothing, I was just feeling something…" Wanda said as she looked at the two-finger ring in Lily's hand, indicating that the ring was the reason for her weird expression.
[Smooth…] Alex complimented.
"Impressive…" Lily nodded while handing the ring to Wanda, "This is a sling ring. It allows us to travel through the multiverse, wherever we want." She told Wanda with a serious expression. Wanda ignored Alex's derisive snort about overestimating the ring's capabilities as she listened to Lily, "This is just a temporary trial piece for you. Your personal Sling Ring will be crafted in a day or so." She told Wanda who had put the ring on and was looking at it curiously.
"It goes on the middle and ring fingers of your left hand." She informed her.
Wanda promptly changed its location on her hand while keeping her gaze fixed on the ring and said, "I can feel that it has a connection to something…"
Lily looked at her with surprise, "You can feel that…" She thought for a few moments and said, "You're right. The Sling Ring can allow you to travel anywhere you want as long as you can imagine the place. This ability is provided by the Transport Dimension that directly overlaps the material universe."
"Like Asgard's Bifrost Bridge?" Wanda blurted out.
Lily looked at her with surprise and narrowed her eyes, "Close. The Bifrost Bridge is exactly that, a bridge that allows them to travel anywhere. Unlike the Bifrost which works on a different principle, our method is true teleportation." She said, "Though I'm surprised you are aware of these things."
"Thor likes telling stories when he gets drunk…" Wanda said embarrassedly.
"Ah, I see." Lily nodded with her everpresent flat expression, "Follow me, Miss Avenger. I'll teach you how to harness the power of the sling ring."
Wanda followed Lily as her training in the mystic arts finally commenced.
***
Asgardian Earth.
Jane's little universal adventure didn't last for very long. Alex didn't know the exact details since couldn't read her mind, but all she did was go into space, run into Beta Ray Bill who was wielding Stormbreaker, and fight the guy for a while to a standstill before they parted ways after which, she Bifrosted back to Earth.
[I'm confused. Why did you fight the guy for practically no reason and then leave?] Jane heard Alex's voice in her head.
She ignored it as she had been doing for the past couple of days. Just because he'd decided not to care much about it, didn't mean that he'd stopped pestering her about it.
[Tell me, Jane…] He'd already told her how he was aware of her real identity. After the initial surprise, she'd just grown to ignore him.
After getting back on Earth, she talked to Loki for a bit about her now-repaired house and left.
[Hey… Tell me.] Alex's pestering finally broke his new host.
"What! What do you want from me?!" Jane screamed with her hands tightly gripping her luscious blonde hair, "You have spent the last 20 hours constantly pestering me about this and that! I don't want to be friends with you! I didn't even want to bond with you! You forced yourself upon me and are annoying the fuck out of me! Tell me what you want from me and fuck off!" She screamed her lungs out.
Jane was left huffing after screaming at the air like a crazy person.
[You know, if someone heard you, they would think you are haunted…] Alex commented in a poor attempt to lighten the mood. Jane was not amused.
Just as she was about to start screaming again, he said, [I just want to help you.]
"I didn't ask for your help!" She snarled.
At this point, Alex appeared in front of her and scoffed, "Please. Your entire situation is a cry for help. And I'm an empathetic being. Even if you have the toughest mental defenses, I can still accurately read your emotions. It doesn't matter how much you hide them, I can read them. And do you know what I feel from you?" Alex said to her aggressively.
Hearing his words, Jane felt herself losing the mental protective layers that she'd built up for years. She stepped back as she felt herself being seen through by this unfamiliar man in front of her.
"I want to help you, Jane." Alex became calmer, "I want to answer your unsaid cry for help. And I want to heal you." He finished.
Jane took a moment to process his words before looking at him with widened eyes, "You…"
"Yes, me." Alex rolled his eyes, "I'm a purely biological being, do you think I can't tell if my host has an extra lump of flesh in her body that's killing her?"
Jane looked at him expressionlessly for a few seconds before saying, "We'll talk later. I have a meeting with the world council soon and I would like to get some rest before that. Can you stop acting like a haunted ghost that's constantly buzzing in my head?"
"For a while, I guess. I'm not going away and I'm not going to stop pestering you, so you might as well accept it. Right now, or in a month." Alex shrugged before disappearing back into her body.
Jane was left blankly looking at the spot where Alex was standing and she sighed before slumping down on the bed as she dropped her hammer at the side along with the sword and its scabbard.
She rested her head on her pillow and slowly, her body started morphing. From its previous rosy and healthy state, her skin greyed and lost its life, her body grew weaker and thinner as she felt like there was barely any mass on her bones. At the same time, her luscious golden hair which was always glowing brightly lost its luster and fell off of her head, leaving her bald.
[What did you refer to yourself as?] She asked him.
[Alex.] He answered feeling a sense of pity for her but also a sense of awe for her. He'd read her story. She was an immensely strong woman, but reading a comic and seeing her pain in person painted a completely different picture.
[This is me, Alex. A dying woman who's barely clinging to life. There's no point in you bonding with me. If you're adamant about an Asgardian then I'll introduce you to Loki.] Jane said.
[There is no way I'm bonding with a man.] Alex instantly denied it.
Jane laughed, [Hela then. She's a strong woman. And before I got Hofund— that's the sword that I use to work the Biforst— I wasn't a match for her.] She told him, assuming he was aware of the Bifrost. She didn't mention her cosmic energy abilities.
[Not interested… Okay, that's a lie, she's a very attractive woman. But that's not the point.] Alex got back on track, [I'm already interested in you and have formed a preliminary bond with you. It will be a loss for me to lose you. Plus, I like gentle hosts. And Hela is far from a gentlewoman.]
[I don't think I came off as gentle when I blasted you with lightning…] Jane said speechlessly as she closed her eyes to rest for a while. Her entire body was currently in pain. That's why she was talking to Alex mentally. Her throat was in pain every time she spoke.
[You were just trying to push me away. When someone is as depressed as you, they reject anyone who answers their call for help. One needs to force help on them.] Alex said. A little smile grazed Jane's lips as she laughed mentally.
[I still think you should bond with Hela. I can help you if you want.] She said.
[As I said, I'd rather not. Just hearing your voice through our telepathic connection is a soothing experience. Do you think Hela's voice can be that gentle? Impossible.] Alex's words made Jane laugh again.
[You like your little quips, don't you?] She asked.
[Very much so. And you like them too. I could feel you desperately holding your laughs in at multiple instances just to not give me the satisfaction back then.] He said.
[Can you really heal me, Alex?] She asked, a trace of hope appearing in her eyes.
[Sure, I can. It's easy. I get that cancer is a big deal and all, but why didn't you refer to Asgardian tech? I refuse to believe that their tech is unable to get rid of an extra lump of mass in your chest.] Alex asked. This had always puzzled him. There was no canon reason given for Jane to not get treatment from Asgardian's or even Wakandan's who had also long been known to have cured cancer.
'I know it's a sort of empowering thing for terminal patients on the part of Marvel's writers, but there has to be a canonical reason for it…' Alex wanted to know.
Jane didn't answer.
After almost a minute of waiting, Alex called her again, [Jane?]
That was when he noticed her rhythmic breathing. She'd fallen asleep.
'Don't tell me…' Alex felt a shiver go down his nonexistent spine as he had a scary thought, 'This is basically the equivalent of The One Above All telling me 'No', isn't it?'
He decided to not bring it up again, 'Whatever. I can heal her by myself… I don't think there's any problem with that…' With that thought, he looked around vigilantly. He half expected to find himself floating in an infinite void before being confronted with the big man himself.
'Thank fuck…' He heaved a sigh of relief and woke up Jane.
"Hm?" She frowned with that hum, [Water…] She thought to herself but Alex heard her. There wasn't any water close to her so Alex just extended a thin tendril in the shape of a straw into her mouth, [Drink.] He told her.
Jane jerked when she felt the unfamiliar item touching her dried lips, but hearing his voice calmed her down as she sucked water from the straw.
[Thanks…] She told him.
[Anytime. Since you've accepted me, shall we talk about how I can help you treat your cancer?] He asked her.
[I haven't accepted it yet. I just thanked you for getting me water.] She pointed out, [It'll be a while before I'm ready to accept you to any extent. Forget about the treatment till then, I still have a year or so to live.] She told him.
[Not with Mjolnir negating the effects of your chemotherapy, you don't.] Alex told her.
[Why do you know everything?] Jane got annoyed.
[I'm a literal apex biological being, Jane. The universe doesn't have anything more advanced than my species when it comes to biology. At least naturally occurring.] He said.
[You guys aren't naturally occurring.] Jane pointed out with a laugh, [You were created.]
Alex was speechless, [Don't you have a meeting? Why are you here messing with me?]
[This is nothing, I'm going to take revenge on all of your annoyance in the past 24 hours… In installments.] She said with playful vindictiveness.
***
"Thor, can you please update us on the situations on these so-called other versions of Earth?" Nick Fury asked. He was one of the 10 people that were sitting in a conference room. 4 of those people were holograms, but the other 6 including Fury were actually present. Alex saw some familiar figures such as Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Doctor Strange also attending the meeting.
"Sure." Jane agreed and leaned back into her chair, "As far as I can tell, this situation is unique to planet Earth. This cluster of 40 planets, including ours, consists solely of different versions of the Earth from across the multiverse. We have our own Earth, we have one that's a complete wasteland infested by mutant monsters, we have one that's in control of Hydra." Jane gave Fury a look.
She continued, "I'm not going to list out all of them. 20 planets don't have any real distinguishing features and are very similar. Some of the planets are where there is almost no presence of enhanced individuals." Jane told them.
"I suggest we play aggressively. Invade them before they invade us. I don't think any of them have the capabilities to resist our technological might. We can start strategically—" Loki was interrupted by Jane.
"No." She didn't say anything more.
"But—" Loki tried to talk civilly.
"No." She looked at him with narrowed eyes, "Keep yourself in check, Loki?" Jane asked.
[You have to tell me what dirt you have on Loki.] Alex said in Jane's mind with brimming curiosity.
Jane ignored Alex and kept looking at Loki until he gave in.
"Invading the planets has its merits," One of the people spoke.
"As Thor said, Alexander." Fury dismissed the notion, "No war, I will not be risking any of those 40 planets joining into a coalition to defeat us. I'm not even sure if we truly are superior. If those planets are counterparts of our own planet, then who's to say one of them doesn't have the same technology as us, or something even greater."
"So we stay here like sitting ducks?" Alexander Pierce spoke.
"No, we'll get to the actual agenda of this meeting instead of going through the same debate we've been going through for months," Fury stated.
Alexander went silent and grunted.
"Gentleman," Fury addressed everyone in the room, "I present my proposal to unite the world through something greater than just the World Government." He nodded to an assistant who was sitting in and he handed everyone a set of some documents. Those who weren't physically present were presented with soft copies.
Fury's speech continued as the attendants of the meeting started skimming through the contents, "In the scenario where we are invaded by another of the planets, we must have enough resources. My proposal is to establish a new organization that will be equivalent to Shield and the UN. They will have full discretion and authority over all resources in the world and their function will be completely autonomous allowing them to have greater authority than even Shield."
Fury started talking about the intricacies of his Illuminati project. Alex was extremely interested in the system that the man had come up with, 'Say what you want about Fury, he's got balls…' He couldn't help but think as he heard the details of the proposal.
The Illuminati will essentially have similar authority that Alex has over the Earth in his Farm and Research Earths. They can enter any country they want and demand any necessary resources. It was the establishment of a truly autonomous force that was essentially in control of the entire world.
"This kind of power…" One of the people who weren't present started after Fury was done, "It's too much to hand to a single organization. They can destroy the entire world if they want… I mean who even will be the person in charge of this Illuminati that you speak of?"
"I have just the person in mind for that." Fury said as he glanced at Steve, "We are all familiar with Captain Rogers' conduct." He started selling Steve as the leader of the Illuminati.
'Those guys are already on board…' Alex realized, 'And even Jane…'
Fury had already told most of the people in the room about his plan. It was just the official execution that remained.
[So what's the first order of business for the Illuminati?] Alex asked Jane.
[How do you know that this is even going to be approved?] She asked him back.
[Is it not? I'm sure Fury already talked to everyone in this room. With just two people opposing it, I doubt Illuminati can be stopped.] Alex said as a matter of fact.
[You're right. As for the first order of business for the Illuminati. We'll be creating an escape plan. A ship if you will, one large enough to transport most if not all of the people on the planet.] She told him.
[Invest in a teleporter instead. I'm sure you can get the tech from one of the alien civilizations.] Alex said.
[Can't work.] Jane said, [We've already looked over that possibility, but it can't be done with the resources we have available. I could even use the Bifrost. But it's not enough for billions.] She said.
[Then convert Earth itself into a huge spaceship, a Death Star, if you will.] Alex said.
[The Death Star would take the resources of multiple solar systems to build. A single planet the size of Earth is far from enough.] Jane said calmly. It seemed they had exhausted all other possibilities.
[Spaceship it is then. Though it's impossible to carry 7 to 8 billion people on any kind of spaceship.] Alex said.
[That's why we have Stark and Richards working together.] She said.
[Impossible.] Alex conveyed his most accurate Thanos impression.
A tiny smile graced Jane's lips and she didn't reply to his words.
The talks continued for the next few hours. It was clear that the Illuminati project was already green, but the talks still took half the day.
[Such is the problem of bureaucracy…] Alex lamented.
[Honestly…] Jane's tone was full of exhaustion.
…
After the meeting.
[Are you going to be participating in the day-to-day work of the Illuminati?] Alex asked her.
[Hell no.] Jane said with disgust.
[Good. Then let's explore some of the other Earths. I want to see how strong you really are.] He said.
[No, I don't want to fight.] Jane refused.
[Then let's infiltrate into another earth and get some information. I can make you look like anyone.] Alex offered.
Jane's eyes glittered with interest, [Too troublesome.] She still refused.
[I swear to fucking god…] Alex got annoyed, [I will turn into a big tentacle monster and fuck you so hard that your brain melts if you keep refusing to do anything.] He was fed up.
Jane felt a shiver run down her spine when she heard his words, [Fine fine…] She grumbled.
[That's the spirit.] Alex said with an obliviously cheery voice as if he hadn't just threatened her, [Are you interested in fighting something?]
[I guess. The shitty meeting wasn't exactly stimulating, I wouldn't mind a nice brawl…] She said with an expectant look and quickly flew up to the moon before taking up a fighting stance, "On with it then." She said. Though only her lips moved and no sound came out. She wanted to fight him.
[Not me, dumbass…] Alex said annoyedly, [I'll lead you to the Earth that has the perfect abomination for you to fight.] He told her.
Jane furrowed her brows, [Are you talking about that apocalyptic Earth that has those mutated monsters?] She asked.
[Yep, there's a perfect monster for you to fight there.] He told her.
Jane didn't respond and instead narrowed her eyes, [How do you know that?] She asked him suspiciously.
[Hive mind, babe. You may not realize, but almost every earth has a variant of the Venom symbiote. It's part of the continuity of the Earth.] Alex told her.
[You sound like a douche when you call me babe like that.] Jane told him before summoning the Bifrost. The rainbow bridge fell on top of her and brought her from the moon of her Earth to Earth-Z.
She appeared in the middle of the wasteland and asked, "Where to?"
[That way.] Alex pointed, [Can you use magic to sense things?] He asked. He didn't know her capabilities and needed to know if she would be able to see the Blood Domes that surrounded the nests of the Abominations.
He quickly led Jane to the nest that he and Laura had first encountered. Ever since he'd gotten Cindy's ‹True Sixth Sense› he'd had a very bad feeling about this specific nest.
Even after scouting the other nests, Alex felt that this was the most dangerous.
Laura was currently enjoying her time in the new home that she and Alex had found. They occasionally went out to hunt some abominations for fun, but they were mostly enjoying their time together while training and getting stronger.
[I'm not very good at it.] Jane told him as she looked around the horizon while flying in the direction Alex directed her. She noticed only two cities left in the entirety of the North American continent, "What happened in this place…" She thought.
[Didn't you check this place out when you first scouted it?] Alex asked her.
[It was just an overview… I didn't actually check things out.] She told him.
[You're in for a surprise then…] Alex kept leading her to the nest.
***
[Stop here.] He told her after they reached the blood dome, [Can you see it?] He asked her.
"I can sense something. See… not so much. It's a bare wasteland." Jane said as she looked around.
[I see… Let's try this then. Don't panic, it might itch a little.] Alex warned her before directing some mana to her eyes, similar to how he'd done with Laura the first time.
"Ahh!" Jane felt the pain in her eyes and her hands shot up to her face. Unlike Laura, she wasn't as deeply bonded with Alex and only had a baseline level 1 bond with him. The only reason this even worked was because of her high affinity with magic.
[It'll just be a second.] Alex told her and stopped after infusing the necessary amount of mana, [Do you see anything now?] He asked.
Jane was just about to chide him, but instead saw the blood dome and felt a chill creep down her spine, "Is that…" She didn't finish her question.
[Yep, human blood, I checked.] Alex confirmed, [Now let's destroy this place.] He said excitedly.
"Ugh…" Jane was creeped out by the view in front of her and stopped spinning Mjolnir. She generated momentum from the sky and generated some lightning.
[Hold up…] Alex said and Jane stopped, spinning Mjolnir again and flew higher.
"What?" She asked.
[You're bonded with me, you have to look the part.] He told her and instantly covered her Thor attire before merging with it. Her red cape turned completely black and her chainmail followed suit. Alex decided to let the prominent silvers such as the 5 disks on her armor and her arm and knee braces stay the same. He just altered their shades to work better with the black. Unlike her Thor attire, Alex's version had her entire body covered in chainmail along with some main artifacts that came with the set.
As for the helmet, he didn't affect it much and made it completely black such that it would cover her entire face. As for the weird wings coming out from the sides, Alex couldn't think of anything and just turned them pointy, like Hela's helmet. He wanted to change Mjolnir's skin too, but the resistance was too strong and he wasn't able to affect the hammer.
[That's better…] Alex said, [Do you want wings?] He offered.
"What did you do?" She asked while looking at her free arm which was now completely covered in black gloves.
[Reoutfit you.] He said, [You've officially been Venomized.] He stated with a laugh. Though Jane didn't get the joke, [It's a stronger armor.] Alex told her flatly. Which was true. Her strength was doubled as long as he enhanced her.
"Cool." Jane nodded and started channeling lightning into Mjolnir. As she slowly descended from the sky, she pulled back the hammer and tensed her entire body in preparation for the collision. In that instant, the sky turned darker and lightning shot down to Jane.
As she descended down, more and more bolts of lightning were being attracted toward her.
When Mjolnir finally collided with the dome, a huge pillar of light shot up, engulfing Jane completely. It was as if a blue sun had just appeared in the sky. The effects were even visible from space. It seemed as if a blue dot had just shot up from the ground.
'Fuck!' Alex had just added a minimal enhancement. That made such a difference to Jane's attack, 'She's extremely compatible with lightning…' Alex could only come up with that reasoning when he compared her to himself, 'How does her affinity compare to Thor?' As the thought entered his mind Jane started descending lower. She'd broken through the blood dome.
That was when the chaos started.
Just as Jane entered the dome, three huge tentacles made of dense crimson made their way to her. Jane's eyes narrowed and she summoned Hofund and slashed a transparent arc of pure cosmic energy at one of them before slamming her charged hammer at the other.
Just as her hammer collided with the tentacle, the other one reached her, and she slashed with her sword again in an attempt to hold it back.
A loud screech was heard throughout the entire nest. Alex noticed that the arc of cosmic energy from Hofund had cut through the tentacle from the middle. It didn't seem to be recovering, 'Thank fuck I didn't insist on bringing Laura here…' That's all Alex could think. Even if she had been much stronger, her powerset was at an extreme disadvantage when it came to these regenerating monsters.
The only people who would actually fight these kinds of enemies were Wanda and Jane, 'Maybe Gwen too, but her bio-electricity isn't enough…'
Jane still had two tentacles to deal with, [Let me help.] Alex said and a pitch-black tentacle appeared from Jane's abdomen and wrapped around one of the remaining tentacles. Alex's body was like a thin thread that wrapped around the ginormous tentacle that was as large as a huge skyscraper, but the thread was enough to immobilize the tentacle. At the same time, he also started devouring the biological energy from the condensed blood.
[EP +1] [EP +1][EP +1] [EP +1] [EP +1] [EP +1] [EP +1] [EP +1]
If Alex had eyebrows, they would be raised, 'How many people's blood is this…' He couldn't help but think as he sucked in the vitality of the blood.
Jane looked at Alex's reliable support and quickly slashed Hofund at the tentacle. The cosmic energy slash easily made work of the third tentacle. Meanwhile, Alex had already boosted his devouring and enveloped the entire tentacle before emptying it completely.
[EP +2000]
[The main guy is still down there.] Alex told Jane as he focused on the ground that was covered by bloody mist and hid the leader class abomination.
Jane didn't hesitate and charged up Mjolnir as she started heading down slowly.
At the same time, a loud roar sounded throughout the wasteland that even affected Jane who was hundreds of meters in the air. The blood mist started to clear and what could only be described as an eldritch mass of flesh and blood. It was like an orb with many thin tendrils coming from its back that acted as its support.
Jane winced as she looked at the disgusting orb pulling a layer of its skin back. As the skin was pulled back, a glassy mass of red was made visible.
'That's a fucking bloody eye…' Alex thought, 'I'm going to call this guy the ‹Eldrich Leader Class›'
[That is disgusting…] Alex said.
"No shit…" Jane replied.
[Clearly, it's mostly shit…] Alex pointed out.
"I did not need that image…" Jane narrowed her eyes and got ready for the battle that was about to come. She charged up both Mjolnir and Hofund with their respective energies and just as she was about to slash them at the eye, it completely opened and focused on her.
"Ahh!" She screamed as her attacks had no real outlet and were fired randomly.
[It's messing with your blood flow.] Alex told her and started counteracting the effects of the eye through the use of his own ‹Basic Blood Manipulation›.
Just as Jane's blood flow calmed down, she didn't hesitate to attack again. Just as the cosmic energy slash left Hofund, the eye narrowed and Alex's blood manipulation was also overwhelmed, leaving Jane helpless.
[Fly up and get out of its sight.] Alex told her.
Jane didn't move. If anything, her grip over Mjolnir loosened and she was about to fall down from the air.
'Fucking hell…' Alex cursed and created two large wings behind Jane and brought her away. At the same time, he created a large dome that was enchanted with Chaos Magic around her to make her disappear from the air.
As Jane disappeared from the sight of the eye, another loud roar was heard throughout miles around the wasteland. But Alex had already brought Jane away.
"Fuck, that was dangerous." Jane gasped and tried to recover from that experience.
[Yeah. My bad.] Alex said, [I didn't think it would be this dangerous.]
"It's fine. You're also the one who got me out of it, so we're even." Jane huffed, "What even was that thing?"
[According to the stuff going on here, it's an abomination that came about from the use of biological weapons in World War Three. The nuclear fallout mixed in with a specific biological strain and mutated the majority of the population into zombies on steroids.] He told her.
"Crazy. Are all the nests this strong?" She asked him.
[Not at all. As far as I know. This is the only nest in this continent that has a creature of this caliber.] Alex wasn't kidding. He'd explored most of North America in his free time and only this nest gave him such a dangerous vibe.
"At least that's a consolation." Jane nodded.
[Is it?] Alex said with a complicated laugh. [If this is the guy in the North American continent, what about Asia? The number of people there…] Alex didn't have to finish for Jane to get the picture.
***
Jane's expression hardened as she contemplated Alex's words.
"I need to take care of these guys…" Jane said.
[I'm not so sure. They've managed for this long, there has to be some successful resistance. In the end, this eye was just minding its own business while we attacked it out of the blue.] He told her.
"I'm not risking it. That thing is made of crystallized human blood." Jane shook her head.
[Well if you want any chance of resisting that guy's blood control ability, you need to let me bond with your blood.] Alex told her. That was their best bet at resisting the monster's what Alex assumed to be ‹Peak Blood Manipulation›.
He had no chance of contending with that with his measly ‹Basic Blood Manipulation›. Even though he and Laura had been active and he had devoured multiple leader class enemies since the last time they'd encountered that huge horde of abominations, the ability had shown no signs of leveling up.
Alex thought, 'I could also invest some of my over 50,000 EP into the ability, but it would be a complete waste. I can just devour these new ‹Eldrich Leader Class› dudes and get the Peak ability. If one isn't enough, I'll just get some more.'
Jane contemplated for a while, "Any other suggestions?"
[None that can get things done quickly. We have the option of killing the subordinate ‹Leader Class› enemies and letting me devour them. But I have no clue when I would be able to copy their ability to the extent where I would be able to contend with that guy.] Alex told Jane. He'd just given her a lot of inferences about his power system.
"And there's no other way?" Jane asked with narrowed eyes. She'd gotten the feeling that Alex was hiding something from her.
'Fucking Cosmic energy bullshit…' Alex was sure that her intuition had to do something with her ability to manipulate Cosmic Energy.
[There are obviously more ways. But these are the only options I'm willing to work with.] His words were the truth and Jane couldn't find any fault in them.
"Let me think it over…" Jane said and glared at the monster before swinging Mjolnir in a specific direction. She wanted to check out how strong the monster in Asia was.
…
Jane was in no state to answer and was barely even conscious. Her body was filled with multiple lacerations as if her skin and blood vessels had been torn apart. She hadn't even been able to get a look at the ‹Eldrich Leader Class› before her blood started running out of control and almost exploded her entire body within mere moments.
Alex focused on escaping that place as fast as he could while healing Jane's body. Ever since bonding with Laura, he'd integrated her ‹Cosmic Healing Factor› into his ‹Biological Manipulation›. So, he could easily heal any of his hosts even from near-death states. Although he wasn't as efficient at healing as Laura's X-gene, he could get the job done, which was all that mattered.
[Jane, you up?] Alex asked her. She barely hummed a response. She'd already lost her transformation and inside the suit that was Alex, she was a frail weak woman right now, a far cry from the Mighty Thor.
[Water…] She transmitted the thought.
Alex obliged her and pushed a straw through her lips to let her drink the water, [Can you drink?]
Her throat exerted a weak suction force, but she couldn't even swallow. Alex sighed, [Don't panic…] He ended up extending the straw into her throat and directly releasing the water into her throat, hydrating her and remedying her dry throat.
Jane didn't even notice the straw and mumbled a weak thank you mentally before she passed out.
'Should I just get rid of the cancer and tell her about it later?' Alex entertained the thought but decided against it, 'Nah, she's a bit too stubborn, it would be more troublesome that way…' He thought.
In the end, he just brought her to a random bunker he found close by and let her rest there. At the same time, he started draining the lump in her chest to reduce its size and also started altering her body to reduce the effects of the cancer. It wasn't going to be anything substantial, she wouldn't even notice it, but in the long run, it would prevent her state from getting worse.
Jane's eyes fluttered open in half an hour, 'Where am I?' She thought. Her throat didn't feel as dry as it usually does when she wakes up from a nap and she wasn't feeling as burnt out as she usually does either.
[You're finally awake.] Alex's voice in her head jolted Jane awake as she remembered her situation.
'Oh…' That's all she thought before summoning Mjolnir to her.
[Don't—] Alex's warning was too late and a hammer crashed through the ceiling of the bunker, bringing a huge amount of debris down on Jane's still extremely weak body.
As Alex shielded her from the damage of the falling ceiling, she grabbed Mjolnir's handle and transformed back into Thor, [My battle junkie of a host. Will you please think before you act for one fucking time?!] Alex shouted at her and Jane visibly flinched.
"Hey, I'm on an unfamiliar planet, in an unfamiliar place with an unfamiliar slimeball inside me. My panic is justified!" She snapped back.
[For fuck's sake…] Alex didn't want to deal with her trust issues right now.
"Hm?" Jane looked up with unfocused eyes as if she was seeing beyond the debris and even the atmosphere itself. She quickly swung Mjolnir, taking flight and instantly breaching Mach speed.
Within seconds, she crossed the atmosphere and appeared in outer space above Earth-Z. The mesmerizing view of the cluster of planets wasn't what she was up here for. Seeing her acting like him when he sensed something with his ‹True Sixth Sense›, Alex thought, 'Does she have some sort of cosmic sense when it comes to these things?'
He knew exactly what she was sensing.
Jane moved to the other side of Earth-Z and was greeted by a mesmerizing view. On two of the variants of Earth that were passing by each other, weak hexagonal patterns were appearing above the surface, coating both nearby planets.
"Are they…" She trailed off as she saw the hexagonal patterns multiplying at an unholy rate and covering the entire surface of the Earth within moments. Though that wasn't all. More layers of the hexagonal shield started appearing.
[Do you have any information about those planets?] Jane asked Alex.
'Of course, I know. They're both my personal planets.' Alex thought but told her something else, [I do actually. They are non-superhero planets with merely a Spider-Man for a hero.] He told her.
Before Jane could say anything, she saw an even more astounding view. The two planets were attracting each other. A bridge of pure energy was forming between the planets and kept getting thicker and thicker. At the same time, the planets were moving closer to each other in the cluster.
[Aren't those going to…] She trailed off.
[Just keep watching. Venom is bonded with both of the Spider-Men on those planets. They won't collide, hell their gravitational fields will also not interfere.] This was the culmination of months of work from Alex, Scientist Gwen, and the army of scientists and research companies he had working for him. It also included getting help from the MCU Wakanda where Alex was the de facto after taking over Killmonger. That came in the form of Vibranium and their shield technology.
"This is crazy," Jane muttered, knowing that no voice would be traveling in the vacuum of space.
As for the moons, they were also included in the conjoined system that those two planets were forming.
In the end, the two planets were revolving around each other in a common orbit with a permanent bridge between them. At the same time, their moons were circling their respective planets in a vertical orbit. That whole system was surrounded by a translucent bubble made of hexagons.
[Do you want to try breaking through the shield?] Alex offered with an enticing tone.
[Why would I do that?] She asked.
[I don't know. Testing.] He shrugged. He was confident that his shields could hold even against her strongest attack. He'd already seen her at her strongest.
Jane scoffed and changed the topic, [We'll be seeing more of this kind of stuff, won't we?]
[I think that the next big thing that's going to happen is the Hydra Earth invading another Earth.] Alex told her.
[What?] Jane raised an eyebrow in surprise.
[Yeah. They're preparing for war.] He told her. He'd already landed on half of the 40 variants of Earth in the past months since he'd arrived in this clusterfuck and had made himself comfortable in them. Even though he hadn't bonded with anyone there, he'd infiltrated into the power structure of those planets and knew a lot of the inside information, 'Except for that fucking Bastion… They have their shit air-tight…' He cursed at Earth-Z for making such an extreme version of Tony. He was sure that if even Jane tried to attack The Bastion, Tony would pull the Thorbuster out of his ass.
***
Farm Earth.
"My fellow Citizens," Alex spoke into a camera that was manned by a single person wearing the Secret Service's uniform, "Today was a monumental day for all of humanity."
He was sitting in the President's chair in the Oval Office while his speech was being broadcast to the entirety of the Earth.
"As of one hour ago, Project Symbiosis has been deemed a success. Our two Earths have formed a new, impenetrable fortress that comprises both moons and planets. It shall henceforth be called the Gaia cluster."
Alex continued his speech, telling the people about how the leaders of both Research Earth and Farm Earth have come together to form the Gaia Federation. It would essentially act as the United Nations Council, but have much more power over the countries, and any and all external disputes had to go through the Gaia Federation.
It was just Alex's way to sugarcoat that he was now the owner of both planets and their disputes and major decisions were going to take place on his terms. He obviously couldn't instantly unite all countries and he had to use some pretenses to slowly take control. As for the people who were resistant to his rules, he was very well aware of how to 'persuade' them.
With his speech over, the live broadcast turned off and the Secret Service agents that were filling the office were dismissed.
As for Alex, he leaned back in his chair with his hands behind his head, as he hummed comfortably, "That's it, Fel. Keep going."
A silver-haired woman moaned from under the table. She was wearing a tight leather bodysuit that covered every single part of her skin up to her chest including her arms and shoulder. It had white fur in a v-shaped design up from her chest, revealing quite a bit of her cleavage. It was her usual Black Cat outfit. She was also wearing a cute-looking car ears headband on her head. It had black fur on the outside of the ear and white fur on the inside to match her hair. As for a final touch, she had a collar on her neck that had an ornamental bell on it that didn't ring.
Hearing Alex's words, she got more enthusiastic from her previously meek and gentle service and grabbed his thighs before impaling herself on his shaft. She took his entire dick into her throat and kept it there for as long as she could. She then pulled back to breathe for a moment and continued deepthroating him.
It didn't take long for Alex to cum directly in her throat.
"Good girl." Alex caressed the side of her face after she drank all his cum.
"Thank you, sir…" She replied submissively before looking at him expectantly.
"Not yet." Alex had a sadistic glint in his eyes.
Felicia felt like she was about to cry but knew that it wouldn't do any good, "I understand…"
"Good, you can leave now," Alex said cheerily before getting up from the chair, leaving Felicia kneeling on the ground under his desk.
'If only I could feel something through this fucking bodysuit that you replaced mine with…' She cried in her heart, 'It's times like these that I hate myself for making him my sugar daddy…'
Felicia Hardy had a little kleptomania problem. After Alex appointed her as his secretary, Felicia enthusiastically agreed, despite not understanding his reason for offering her the job. Working as the secretary of the President would give her an extremely reputable identity and would also give her access to more high-profile information.
Sadly for her, she once saw a shiny thing on her boss's desk and ended up swiping it, 'And the rest is history…' She lamented inwardly.
…
One Month Ago.
"Mr. President?" Felicia called through the intercom. "Mr. President?" She called again but didn't get any response.
She was concerned and as per procedure, she knocked on the door to the office, "Sir? Are you there?"
Receiving no answer, she quickly opened the door before ducking to dodge any possible bullets from the potential terrorists that had kidnapped the President.
When nothing happened, she looked up to see the empty office, 'I feel stupid…' She thought as she stood back up and fixed her clothes and pulled down her suit skirt that had risen up.
She walked into the office and called again, 'I should raise an alarm.' She thought and walked to the desk to use the President's emergency button. That was when she noticed something shiny on the desk. It was under a document but was visible when she got close to the desk.
Unable to help herself, she moved the document and saw a couple of diamonds lying on the table. 'He won't know…' She quickly swiped three out of the around twenty small diamonds and hid them inside her bra before going around the desk. She was going to press the emergency button to raise an alarm.
As she walked around the desk, she saw the President entering the office through a hidden door in the wall. She jumped back from the desk, "Mr. President…" She addressed him with surprise.
"Did I cause a scare, Fel?" Alex asked her with a smile. He knew what she'd done. After all, he was the one who'd entrapped her.
"Not yet, sir. I was just about to raise the alarm to call the Secret Service." She told him with a professional tone. Even though she didn't know why she got the job, she was a very competent secretary.
"Well, you don't have to anymore," Alex told her and glanced at the table.
Felicia felt her heart drop to her stomach, 'He's definitely going to notice…'
Contrary to her thoughts, Alex didn't seem to notice the missing diamonds and turned back to her with the same little smile on his face, "Follow me, Fel."
He turned and started walking to the hidden door.
"Yes, sir." She didn't dare disobey him in the current scenario, "But you have a meeting with General Ross in 5 minutes." She reminded him.
"It's fine." Alex turned back to her and she had to stop walking to prevent herself from colliding with him. Her forehead was barely an inch away from his chin and she had to look up to meet his gaze, "He can wait." Alex brought one of his hands to her head and ran his fingers through her hair with gentleness.
He turned and started walking again and Felicia followed him in a daze, confused by what just happened, 'Doesn't he have the First Lady…' She thought confusedly.
Alex had long declared MJ as the First Lady just for fun. It was all because her newfound status made it that much more pleasurable when he degraded and humiliated her. MJ was essentially an outlet for all his repressed sadistic desires. That was why he was able to deal with troublesome hosts like Jane in a calm state. All because he had a perfect outlet for his frustrations.
When he first appeared on Earth-65 and bonded with Spider Gwen, he did many questionable things with her. Although she had liked them at that moment, he knew that she was somewhat bitter about his attitude during that time to some extent. That was why he was making things better with her now.
Those dark desires had never gone away. He'd just found a better outlet for them—someone who was actually into that stuff. Or at least someone that he'd turned into liking that stuff.
Felicia followed him through the door that closed behind her, the thump made a chill run through her spine. She instantly looked back and noticed the dark color of the wall and the door. It was padded with black sound-absorbing foam all over.
"Sir, what is this place?" She asked as she turned around and finally took in the view of the room. She felt her heart shaking when she realized what kind of place she was in right now.
"You can see it yourself." Alex turned to look at her with a smile. That harmless smile seemed so terrifying to Felicia.
"D-did you get a sex dungeon installed here…" She was somewhat mortified at the thought.
"Sure." Alex said with a weird tone, "It was me who got it installed."
Felicia felt as if there was a deeper meaning to Alex's tone, but didn't respond. She was feeling overwhelmed as she looked at the complex gadgets and trinkets all across the room along with multiple different restraining devices. That was when she heard a muffled moan echo through the room.
Her head whipped in that direction and she noticed a naked redheaded woman having been hung from the ceiling. Her entire body was suspended horizontally with her legs spread apart like a frog and her arms pulled behind her back. She was wrapped in ropes that kept her immobilized and helpless. Lastly, there were two suction cups attached to her breasts that were extracting what could only be breast milk from them.
"F-First Lady…" Her eyes widened and she just noticed how loudly her heart was beating. It was like a drum that kept beating in her ears, 'He knows!' That was the only thought that ran through her mind, 'Why else would he invite me in here?'
"Mr. President, why did you…" She trailed off, hoping he would understand her question.
"Take off your clothes, Fel," Alex ordered with a smile, "If I don't find the diamonds on you, you're free to go. Otherwise, you can join me here for a session and I'll let you keep them. I won't pursue you for anything."
If Alex's first words had made her stomach twist in despair, the end of his words showed her a ray of hope that she desperately clung to.
"You promise?" She asked with the thought, 'Making the President himself my sugar daddy doesn't sound too bad… She seems to be pretty happy.' She glanced at Mary Jane who had already orgasmed twice ever since Felicia had noticed her, 'And he's so hot…' She thought dreamily.
Instead of covertly taking over the original President, Alex had done his best to be appointed as the President through actual legal means. He'd first set up a legal identity for himself before doing some more underhanded work that led to him being appointed as the youngest President in the history of the country. And he hadn't even been elected. He'd used a very tricky method of taking over the country.
He became the President as the Designated Survivor of a so-called 'bombing' that wiped out the entire governing cabinet of the country.
A 'terrorist attack' had blown up the Capitol building while the entire cabinet was in session, killing essentially every high authority political figure in the country. The country had a failsafe in exactly this kind of scenario, and that was the Designated Survivor who would make sure that the country kept running, and Alex was that Designated Survivor. Overnight, he was appointed as the President of the country.
Now that he was in the seat of power, he was going to make sure that he never let it go.
'Playing politics can be fun if you have the kind of balls required to kill everyone who opposes you…' Felicia thought as she recalled Alex's history. Most of the people who stood up against him in the last two weeks since he'd become president were either dead or persuaded, 'I'm wet…' She felt her panties getting wet at the thought. As his secretary, she knew a lot more about his dealings than a normal person.
"Sure." Alex nodded with a smile, "If you want, then we can also set up an agreement after your punishment."
Felicia shivered, "Punishment?"
"Of course. You've already admitted to taking the diamonds, no?" He asked.
'Does he know about my habit? Was I entrapped…' Felicia thought as she took a step back. At the same time, Alex stepped closer to her.
"You took the diamonds, right kitten?" Alex said with a knowing expression.
'He knows…' Felicia realized that he'd probably known about her Black Cat persona before he even appointed her. She gulped audibly and nodded like a scared cat.
"Good girl…" He caressed her silver hair.
Inwardly, Felicia was pretty terrified and his gentle touch gave her a sense of security. She felt vulnerable and closed her eyes, leaning into his palm.
A few seconds later, Alex removed his palm and stepped back. Felicia looked at him like a curious cat.
"Take off your clothes," Alex commented and Felicia instinctively took off her suit jacket and dropped it on the floor before coming back to her senses.
"Can-can we take things a little slow, sir?" She pleaded. Looking at the state of the First Lady who was literally being milked by a machine while being suspended from the ceiling. Felicia did not want to be in such a state.
Alex saw her covert glance at MJ and smiled, "Don't worry. She likes it. As for you…" He walked around her as if admiring a beautiful piece of art, "…We'll find out what you like too."
Felicia still seemed to be hesitant, so Alex decided to play a little cat-and-mouse game with her, "How about I take you on a date then?" Though, in this case, he was the cat.
Even though she didn't express much of a reaction other than raising her eyebrow, Felicia's heart was in turmoil, "Can you?"
"Sure, I can." Alex shrugged and decided to scare her a little and morphed his face into someone else.
Felicia jumped back with widened eyes and looked at him vigilantly, "Are you an alien?" The thought of an alien being in control over the country wasn't the most comforting thing.
"Maybe. Alex shrugged her question off, "Now, let's go."
Alex was going to have a lot of fun with this girl.
…
"What kind of powers do you have?" Felicia asked with a numb expression on her face. She'd thought that he would exit the White House with her by changing his face, but he didn't do that and came with her using his usual face. In the end, not a single person noticed either of them. It was as if they were in a camouflage bubble.
"Quite a few, actually." Alex told her, "See." He pointed at a parked car. Felicia looked at it and saw a normal parked car. In the next instant, that car was upside down.
She was quite spooked at the view, "How even did you…" She couldn't even pass it off as a hallucination. The flipped-over car was left there as they both walked through the streets of Washington.
"Probability manipulation." He raised his palm and showed her the distinct glow of Chaos Energy surrounding his palm. His words struck a chord with Felicia.
"What does that mean?" She asked with a frown.
"Are you familiar with Quantum mechanics?" Alex asked a question in response.
"Not particularly, no," Felicia answered with a sour undertone. Due to an incident in her past, she'd dropped out of college. The only reason that she was Alex's secretary was that he'd literally picked her out randomly from the street. She hadn't even had the qualifications to apply otherwise.
"Well…" Alex thought of a simplistic explanation for her, Quantum mechanics states that each and every particle in the known material universe is based on probabilities. For example, you see this?" Alex conjured an empty glass in his hand.
Felicia would've shrugged it off as a sleight-of-hand magic trick, but she saw the atoms of the empty glass coagulate into the structure that it was. The girl was left dumbfounded at what she just saw.
"It's very abstract, but what I just did was convince the atoms in the air that they aren't air. I essentially gaslit them into believing that they are atoms of this glass instead. And that's how they should connect together." He told her a different explanation of how Chaos magic works. This was the scientific principle behind the working of Chaos magic as far as he had been able to figure it out.
"Magic is just science that we don't understand, huh?" Felicia commented.
"Well…" Alex thought for a moment and said, "The explanation is sure there, but the manipulation aspect… That's all magic. Without the energy that I used to convince the atoms, this is no more than a natural phenomenon to science, impossible to control." The glass shattered into countless particles and became air again.
"That's amazing…" Felicia was a little lost, "Can I do it?" She asked randomly.
"Maybe. Do you have something that can manipulate or affect probability?" Alex asked with a smile that made Felicia feel like she was naked.
'He even knows about that…' She shivered.
"Black cats are considered as a symbol of bad luck in folklore…" He started and Felicia felt herself wanting to run away, 'He definitely knows…' But from what he'd shown her, she had no chance against him. He continued, "…But I think that they are such cute little fellas. Society's prejudice against them is so," Alex paused and looked her in the eyes, "Meaningless."
Felicia didn't know how to react. With each word, he was unveiling more and more of her secrets, and she couldn't do anything about it.
"Right, babe?" He asked while putting his arm around her shoulder.
"W-What do you want from me?" She asked shakily. She was scared and didn't know what was going on.
"Nothing really." Alex shrugged, "I just said. I think that you're cute. I can be your sugar daddy and if anything out of your league causes some problem for you, I'll take care of it." He said, "I'm not really a romance kind of person in the first place." Alex told her frankly. He had his fair share of romantic lovey-dovey shit with the others.
"Can I take a walk on it?" She asked. This was a huge decision for her. And she knew what awaited her if she accepted. She could never escape from him if she agreed. But the benefits of agreeing were too enticing.
"Sure. You can give me your answer tomorrow morning." Alex shrugged. Unlike MJ's bitchy attitude, Felicia was just a little damaged and Alex was willing to be patient with her.
With his answer, he grabbed Felicia's hand and interlaced his fingers with hers. She smiled lightly and followed his lead. She was more than willing to continue their date.
…
The next morning, Felicia agreed to his proposal.
"Good." Alex nodded with a happy expression, "Follow me."
"Will you really give me free rein?" She asked with some anxiety.
"Yes. You will be given an official identity in the secret service. On paper, you are on a mission assigned by the President himself and no one can question you." He told her.
Felicia went silent after hearing his words and quietly followed him into the sex dungeon.
"Were you really the one who installed this place?" Felicia asked curiously. She was itching to know since the previous day.
"No," Alex told her.
"No?" She wanted more, "What do you mean by no?"
Alex didn't answer and stepped through the door, followed by Felicia. At the same time, a clone of himself appeared in his office. As for the empty front desk to check visitors in, there was another person to manage it in case Felicia was on leave.
Inside the room, Felicia felt chills run down her spine, solely because of what the room represented. She also noticed the MJ. She was in a much better position today. Her arms were held above her head and tied together such that she was standing on the tips of her toes. She was completely naked and blindfolded, and Felicia's eyes instantly homed on the three shiny piercings on the woman's body. Two nipple piercings and one on her pussy, presumably a clit piercing.
She also noticed MJ's collar that had a dog tag with the words, 'Slave #1'.
'Will he put one on me too…' She thought with some apprehensiveness.
"Remove your clothes," Alex commented and this time Felicia had no resistance and was quickly left wearing nothing but her underwear. She felt extremely embarrassed, but hardened her expression and snapped her bra open in front of Alex, freeing her tits. She also took off her panties and was left completely naked in front of Alex.
'This feels so weird…' She didn't know what to think or do. She was feeling vulnerable in front of Alex who was still wearing all his clothes.
"Come here." Alex beckoned her to himself and sat on a couch that appeared abruptly behind him.
Felicia didn't know what he was going to do and followed his command. When she stood in front of him, Alex's arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her down onto her lap.
She yelped and instinctively resisted, but felt that all died down when she saw Alex's calm expression. She obediently sat in his lap, completely naked.
"Tell me about yourself, Felicia," Alex asked with one arm wrapped around her waist and the other resting on her thigh. He pulled her legs up to the couch such that she was sitting semi-horizontally.
"Huh?" Felicia who expected herself to be ravaged completely was surprised.
"What?" Alex liked her reaction, "I'm not a brute. I like to take things slow." Alex said. If MJ's sight and hearing weren't suppressed, she would've protested vehemently. Alex had brutally fucked her into oblivion when he first met her.
"Well…" Felicia didn't know what to say. She was feeling goosebumps as Alex ran his fingers over her bare thigh while she sat in his lap.
"Let's start with your sexual experience," Alex told her.
After a few moments of embarrassed hesitation, Felicia replied, "I have essentially no experience with sex." She answered.
"Tell me more." Alex squeezed her thigh, making Felicia feel an unfamiliar feeling in her stomach.
"I've only had sex once." She said, "I was assaulted by a man who found me attractive. Never after that." She answered.
Alex frowned, "Then why did you accept my offer so easily?" He asked. He was genuinely curious. He'd thought that she'd healed some of her past trauma and that's why she accepted his offer. He could always read her mind, but that wouldn't be any fun.
"Well…" Felicia thought for a while, "I don't really know. I just felt that things would get better if I accepted your offer. Like a sixth sense telling me to accept…" She answered.
"Is that so…" Alex said with a frown. He had no role to play in this 'sixth sense' that Felicia had, 'Is it related to her bad luck jinx?'
"I guess that I had a feeling that my endless bad luck would change if I accept your offer." She said, "Every time I walk home from the office, I would have at least some kind of accident. Someone would try to rob, kidnap or assault me, or I would trip on something, hell, once I had a potted plant almost fall on my head. I barely dodged it. But yesterday… I didn't have any such thing… As if my luck had changed."
'Oh…' Alex realized, 'The Chaos energy interfered with her bad luck…'
"I'm guessing that it's because of my unconscious interference," Alex told her.
"How so?" She asked.
Alex thought for a moment, "Since I have the power to consciously manipulate probability, I'm guessing that my power unconsciously entangled with whatever you have and temporarily blocked or affected it in some manner." He told her.
"All the more reason for me to accept. I've been fighting the universe for two years now, and I'm tired…" She said with a tired sigh, "Having a nice sugar daddy to lean back on wouldn't be too bad."
Alex couldn't help but smile as he kept talking to her, getting her more comfortable with his presence.
***
Alex spent almost half an hour talking to and flirting with Felicia and making her comfortable with his presence. Even though she was completely naked and he was inappropriately touching her thigh, he never went further. It comforted her to some extent.
"Master~" Their quiet time was disturbed by MJ's call. Felicia had almost forgotten that the girl was also present in the room.
"I'll give you a sneak peek of what we'll be doing together." Alex gently smiled at Felicia. This time, she didn't feel too scared and was just slightly apprehensive about what was to come.
He gently held her in his arms and stood up. Felicia's arms naturally wrapped around his neck for support. She could clearly feel her heart thumping loudly in her chest.
Alex brought her directly in front of MJ and set her on the ground at a bit of distance, "Kneel." He commanded her.
Felicia hesitated but obeyed nonetheless. She knew what she'd signed up for.
She knelt on the ground and noticed that it wasn't hurting her knees. A platform had appeared under her as she knelt on the ground. It prevented her knees from chafing.
"Correct your posture." Alex looked down at her and nudged her knee with his foot. Felicia felt a blush rise on her cheeks as Alex guided her as if she was some cheap whore.
Finally, she was kneeling on the ground with her knees spread apart and her palms resting on her knees, "Keep your back straight." Alex commanded and Felicia obeyed.
She gulped audibly as MJ called again, "Master~"
"This needy slut…" Alex glanced at MJ. She had both her sight and hearing suppressed and didn't even know that there was a guest with them today.
"Stay like that." Alex told Felicia, "You are not to touch yourself. Understood?" He looked at her pointedly.
"Yes, sir." She used the same address that she does usually. But it felt like it had a different meaning here.
Leaving Felicia there, he walked up to MJ.
"You see, Felicia," Alex said, "My MJ likes to be hurt." He slapped the redhead's chest and the girl let out a relieved moan, "Master~"
"But—" Felicia was interrupted by Alex.
"No speaking. Just listen." Alex told her as he continued slapping MJ's breasts. She constantly moaned as she was hit by him.
"She's a true masochist." He gripped both her nipple piercings and pulled. The girl shouted in pain, but the undertone of pleasure was unmistakable. He pulled them to the point that MJ's feet were barely touching the ground.
When he let her go, she swung back and forth a bit before settling down on her toes again, "Thank you, master~"
"You see?" Alex's hand went to her pussy next and unceremoniously pushed two fingers inside, "This slut is into all sorts of pain."
After fingering her pussy for a few seconds, Alex pulled out a set of strings from his ‹Inventory›. There were three strings connected to a singular ring in the center. Each string had a clasp at the end. He clasped those strings to each of MJ's piercings, connecting her nipple and clit piercings.
As for the central ring, he latched another string to it and brought it to Felicia, "Hold this in your mouth." He let her bite the bundled string that was connected to MJ's piercings. "Keep the string taut, if you let it go, I'll put you in her place." He told her, much to her horror. She desperately nodded, making Alex smile.
"Ahn~" MJ moaned as she felt her piercings being pulled.
Alex then moved behind MJ and gave Felicia a smile. She got the message and pulled her head back, tugging the string that was attached to MJ's piercings.
"Nnn~" The bound girl squirmed and tried to bring herself forward, but Alex's arm wrapped around her waist and kept her in place. At the same time, his other hand started smacking her ass.
With each spank, MJ let out moans and squeals while squirming. But each movement of her body made her piercings get tugged and caused her pain.
Felicia had a first-hand view of MJ's moans and reactions to each stimulus that Alex gave the girl.
"You see this slut?" Alex asked Felicia rhetorically, "She loves it when I inflict pain on her."
Alex created a hook with a ball that was double the width of the rod at its short end and showed it to Felicia, "This is an anal hook."
Alex spent the next two hours utterly terrifying Felicia as she saw him do things to MJ that she couldn't ever imagine doing. And the most astounding part for her was that the woman actually liked it. She enthusiastically begged for more after Alex put the hook into her ass and attached it to the ceiling. It made her position even more stressed.
As for Alex, he was gauging Felicia's reactions when it came to different kinds of sexual pleasures that he was showing her. He wanted to know what kind of stuff made her tick.
"You can let go now," Alex told Felicia whose eyes were stuck on MJ's bruised and battered figure that was still hanging from the ceiling by her hands and the anal hook. However, there was a silly smile on MJ's face as her lower body twitched every once in a while.
Felicia let go of the strings that she had been clenching for the past two hours. Just as his hand brushed against her cheek, Felicia flinched and pulled back.
"Sorry…" She mumbled while looking up at him. He was still fully dressed, wearing pants and a shirt with the sleeves folded back.
"Your jaw must be aching, get up," Alex said to her and offered her his hand.
She tried to get up on her own, but her legs were too stiff due to her position. Hesitantly, she grabbed his extended hand and stood up on shaky legs.
"How about this? I'll give you another out." Alex said with a smile as he looked into Felicia's eyes, "You can leave out that door right now if you want. I won't stop you." He said.
'The illusion of choice…' Alex smiled as he saw Felicia's conflicted expression. He knew what she was going to choose. The other choice was just an illusion.
Her face hardened and she said, "I'm not a coward. I've already agreed."
"That's good." Alex nodded with an impressed smile and led Felicia to the bed.
The center of the room housed a nice four-poster mahogany bed. The four pillars on its corners had multiple rings to attach hooks and clasps. It was a custom bed made for a specific purpose.
"Would you feel more comfortable if I took off my clothes too?" Alex asked gently as he sat on the bed. He patted his side and Felicia hesitantly sat beside him.
"I think so… Seeing you fully clothed while I'm naked makes me feel…" She didn't know what word to use.
"I understand." Alex nodded and his clothes completely disappeared. Though he still left his underwear on. He didn't want to startle Felicia, 'It's like I'm taming a cat…' He thought with amusement.
"Better?" He asked as the back of his hand ran along her arm. She flinched at his touch again, but the reaction was much more mellow than a few seconds ago.
She looked him over and nodded. Though her eyes weren't leaving his chiseled body, 'There are so many benefits of being a slime. I can have any kind of body I want.' Alex thought happily.
Seeing that she was somewhat comfortable with his touch, Alex slid back on the bed and told her, "Come here, cuddle with me."
As he'd said, he took things gently and slowly. Felicia hesitantly slid back and got close to Alex. When she felt his arm wrapping around her waist, she flinched again and tried to escape. But his hold was too tight.
"Shush~" He shushed her, "Calm down. I won't force you, okay? You'll feel amazing." He said and the girl slowly calmed down. Though she didn't seem comfortable with him touching her so intimately.
Somehow, she'd endured the entire time she was sitting in his lap without flinching and reacting like this, 'I guess she hadn't realized what we'd be doing then…' Alex thought.
Alex knew that he had to push her a bit or they were going to be here for too long. He ignored her tense state and wrapped his other arm around her before pulling her close to him in a spooning position.
This time, although she flinched with his touch, she didn't struggle and obediently accepted his cuddling.
"Good kitty~" Alex praised her with a whisper in her ear and she shivered before turning her head.
"Calm down, Fel." Alex soothed her and slowly started rubbing her belly in a circular motion.
She squirmed when he started rubbing her belly and let out an aroused whimper. But she didn't make any move to get away. She was enjoying his gentle belly rub.
"Tell me how you feel," Alex told her gently.
"Tingly in my stomach… Warm… A little scared too…" She openly told him of her current thoughts.
"Tell me if this feels good." Alex created some oil using condensed EP and rubbed it on her stomach.
"Mhm~" She hummed with pleasure, "More tingles… Better…" She said.
"That's good," Alex said gently and continued rubbing the oil on the parts of her body that he knew she would be comfortable with his touching. At this point, he decided to let her feel something else.
As Felicia felt something poking her butt, she flinched again and instinctively tried to get away. But Alex held her close to himself and whispered soothing words to her. She was also comforted by the fact that he was still wearing his underwear and his dick wasn't directly touching her pussy.
When she calmed down, Alex told her, "I won't do anything you don't want me to, okay?"
After she seemed to get comfortable with his touch, he finally moved his hands to her chest. At first, it was just a faint brush against her underboob. As he saw that she wasn't reacting negatively, he continued and went further.
Soon, he was completely cupping her breasts with both hands and massaging them with the EP oil that was essentially a mild aphrodisiac while also having many other benefits to the body.
"I feel hot, sir…" Felicia told him as her hands balled into fists, "I want more…" She pleaded as he massaged her breasts and teased her nipples every once in a while.
"As you wish." Alex smiled and slowly trailed one hand down her torso while continuing to massage and tease her tits with the other.
His trailing fingers left a line of heat on Felicia's stomach and she couldn't help but squirm. Especially when his finger teased her belly button for a few seconds. She both giggled and moaned at that time, "You're ticklish, huh?" Alex smiled amusedly.
Felicia didn't respond and waited for him to help her quench her arousal.
The moment his finger brushed against her labia, Felicia's eyes widened and she shouted, "No!" She desperately tried to pull away.
Alex still kept her close to himself but brought his fingers away from her pussy. He gently calmed her down, "Don't worry. I told you that I'm taking things slow, right?"
"Mhm…" She nodded apprehensively. That single touch reminded her of her traumatizing past and reset the whole scenario.'
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