Two days quickly passed by without anything noteworthy happening. Hela proved to be quite a difficult person to deal with, and Alex was still not satisfied with his control over her after nearly three years of training her in Gaia. By a conservative estimate, it would take another seven years before he could actually utilize Hela without having to worry about her backstabbing him. Masochistic battle junkie or not, she was far too troublesome to deal with.
That was the initial reason that he'd chosen to form a bond with Jane instead of Hela. Regrettably, that didn't really go according to plan either.
On the other hand, he and Susan treated the planet as a weekend trip, exploring cliché tourist destinations and enjoying each other's company with the occasional kinky escapade.
Eventually, a fleet of satellites arrived at the planet and took positions across the exosphere, forming a comprehensive detection dome that covered the entire planet. The moment the satellites were in place, Alex activated the Infinity Stone detection system on Farm Earth to locate any Infinity Stones that were on the planet. It took no more than a few seconds for the activated satellites to capture all traces of the unique Cosmic Energy signature of Infinity Stones.
"Four..." Alex frowned.
"You seem unhappy with that number..." Susan said while looking at the hologram of the world map in front of them. It had four prominently blinking dots, three in the deepest trenches of the ocean, and the fourth, in Wakanda of all places. "To think we waged that battle so close to an Infinity Stone..."
"There is interference," Alex said. "I can't identify which stone is which."
"Why does that matter?"
"Last time we decided to forego caution, I was almost wiped out of reality itself."
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..."
"It's possible that this was a protection mechanism put in place by Jane. Her powers allow her to manipulate Cosmic Energy to a certain extent."
"But it could also be a trap."
"I won't rule out the possibility."
"So what's the plan?"
"I'm going to throw people at those stones," Alex said.
"You don't mean..." Susan looked uncomfortable.
"Why do you think I'm developing so many forces? The Widows, Witches, Ten Rings-there has to be a synonym for ninjas that starts with W... I should look for similar alliterative names for any future force I develop..."
"Alex, focus."
Alex cleared his throat. "You get my point," he said before creating a mystic arts portal behind them.
"Master Apex!" The sudden exclamations startled Susan for a moment as she saw twelve people step through the portal-four women and eight men. From their long robes and general mysterious vibe, she concluded that they were likely magic users from among the Witches that Alex had just mentioned.
"You all know what to do," Alex said. "If you feel like there is any life-threatening danger, you can immediately retreat. Now go. Make sure to cast shielding spells. The underwater pressure can crush you into human mush in an instant."
The twelve nodded with determined expressions as Alex formed three portals that led directly to the vicinity of the Infinity Stones. Since the portals were underwater, Alex made some modifications to block any environmental pass-through, limiting it to people.
Quickly dividing themselves into three groups, the twelve magicians all disappeared.
"What about the one in Wakanda?" Susan asked.
"That one isn't an Infinity Stone. It's another Cosmic Cube," Alex chuckled. "I wonder if this one also plans to self-destruct and take me down."
"Just now, you were saying you couldn't identify these signals."
"Hela told me about the Cube just now," Alex said. "She's grown quite cooperative over the past four years that she's spent in the Gaia Penitentiary."
"So, are you not planning to collect it?" Susan changed the topic.
"Soon," Alex said.
"Was this whole thing bait?" Susan suddenly asked. "You spent two days after deploying those satellites when I know for a fact that you could have brought them here within moments with portals."
"Too big," Alex said, looking back at Susan with a smile.
"So you can transport a flying fortress to another planet with your portals, but can't do the same to some satellites that aren't bigger than cars?" She asked sarcastically, crossing her arms. Alex had mentioned to her the event where he brought General Dreykov's Red Room fortress from MCU Earth to Earth-Z.
"My Susan's so smart."
"That is demeaning on so many levels," she snorted. "I have a PhD, for fuck's sake. Preparing for a second."
"Oh, you're planning to get another doctorate? That's news to me."
"I'm still considering it..."
"Let me know if you need any help," Alex said. "You have the entire resources of multiple planets at your dispo...sal..."
His brow furrowed when he saw one of the signals disappear from the display.
"That's not supposed to happen, is it?" Susan asked from the side, her tone grave.
"No." Alex shook his head and tried to pull the four-person team that he'd sent back. Four portals appeared behind him and Susan, swirling with an ominous crimson. Not wanting to take the risk of using Mystic Arts portals, Alex went with Chaos Magic ones since they were more robust and less prone to interference. Moments later, the portals delivered four bodies to the ground and fizzled out.
Susan immediately started examining the four dead bodies to identify how they may have died.
"No water in their lungs... No signs of struggle... Did someone suck their souls out?" She asked. A few weeks ago, she would have dismissed anything related to the soul as metaphysical nonsense. Now, however, with the things that Alex had shown her, not to mention his power to do exactly what she'd just mentioned, she had to believe that such metaphysical concepts were real.
"I wouldn't eliminate the possibility," Alex said. "And no, I did no such thing. Why would I kill my own bait?"
"I didn't say anything," she said.
"You were thinking it."
Alex continued focusing on the other stones and saw the second one disappear similarly within seconds.
"Gaia, check for interference. Any possible leaks we might have missed. Whether cyber or mystical. Run all possibilities," he said before bringing four more dead bodies through Chaos portals. "Work with me to examine these bodies as well."
Alex tossed a small piece of himself at one of the dead bodies and started examining it.
Just as he expected the same thing to happen to the third stone, a mystic arts portal with red sparks appeared in the room, making Alex raise a brow. "Interesting..."
A group of four stumbled out, covered in red protective shields as the portal closed behind them. Without a word, Alex yanked the glowing blue Infinity Stone from the specialized container in the leader's hand as it flew through the air and into his hand.
"Space, huh?" He smiled as the stone immediately got absorbed into his body and shifted to his soul, merging with the existing Space Stone. Gaia had already examined it for him using the authority of the other stones, clearing the stone as completely safe to merge.
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A faint blue current appeared on Alex's body as he let out a comfortable breath. Susan, beside him, let out a muffled groan as traces of concentrated authority affected her through Alex.
The moment the stone merged into Alex, the four witches dropped to the ground, losing all traces of life.
Susan gasped, her eyes wide as she immediately started walking toward the downed people.
"Don't be a fool, Sue," Alex said, locking her muscles and freezing her in place.
Just as Alex immobilized Susan, his Sixth Sense blared, informing him of an incoming calamity.
So, now you work? Where the fuck were you when that Cosmic Cube tried to wipe me from reality?
-x-X-x-
As Alex and Susan kissed, she slipped her hand down his abdomen and grasped his rapidly hardening shaft. She slowly pumped, moving her hand along its length as a smile crept up her face that Alex felt through the kiss.
"Someone's excited," she said teasingly.
"Let's go out. I'll take you to your house," Alex said, planning to envelop Susan, but her grip suddenly tightened, and her expression turned into a frown.
"You always call it my house..." She said. "Why? If anything, that was originally Victor's apartment."
"..." Alex raised a brow. Susan's expression had taken a turn, but she was still stroking him after loosening her grip.
"I want to stay here," she whispered. "It feels...warm and cozy."
"Why?" Alex asked. "It's dark; the only light here is from the Infinity Stones. I've filled this place with all sorts of trash. Look there, that's my emergency Bioenergy reserve..."
Alex was pointing to two hills of raw meat.
Susan made a gagging face before turning her eyes away.
"You are deliberately trying to disgust me, aren't you?"
"I'm just trying to get my
"You're lying. You have an infinitely large inventory. What's wrong with us having sex in here for a bit?"
"It's not infinitely large. It's just that space and time, as concepts, don't exist here at all. My Inventory> is as large as my mental power can extend."
"Alex..." Susan said, her neck flushing a little as Alex continued fondling her chest, though she continued her reciprocating actions. "Tell me the truth."
"This is a dangerous place," he said. "If I let you get comfortable in here, you won't want to go out."
"That's it?" Susan asked, looking baffled. "I feel comfortable here, yes, but it's nowhere near being that intense..."
"You'd think that," Alex said. "But, one, our bond isn't as deep just yet. Once we reach the Skin Bond, or even the Skeleton Bond, then you'll see how intense the feeling of being in this place is. And two, you haven't even realized, but you already don't want to leave. That's the only reason you've been so insistent on getting to the bottom of things."
"The second point is moot, because I always pry into your thoughts and get to the bottom of things," Susan said. "The moment you try to keep me away from something, it will make me curious."
"We can't stay here long-term," he said.
"I think it's the other way around," Susan said. "With all these Earths and this multiverse bullshit going on... This is the one place that you can actually feel at home in."
"What are you trying to do, Sue?" Alex asked, narrowing his eyes.
"Come here," Susan stepped back, pulling Alex with her since she was still gripping his cock. Using her powers to create an invisible chair, she led him to it. "Sit."
He went along and sat down, looking up at her face as she stood right in front of him.
Giving him a little smile, she unbuckled her belt and started undoing her skirt. Lowering both it and her underwear, she got on top of Alex and straddled him, moaning comfortably as she felt him entering her depths.
"God, I can never get tired of this feeling..." She commented, putting her chin on his shoulder. "I want to stay here..." She whispered.
Alex felt Susan's insides tighten as he wrapped his arms around her, holding her close as one hand wrapped around her waist and the other cradled the back of her head.
"Why?" Alex asked as Susan started to sway her hips, barely moving from her spot as she did so.
"Mm..." She didn't say anything and hugged him, letting out a comfortable groan right beside his ear.
"This is exactly why I was reluctant about this..." He shifted his hand that was cradling her head and moved it under her hair, grasping her nape before pulling her head back. She didn't particularly resist his actions and looked at him with a lazy smile.
"That place is my ex-boyfriend's apartment," Susan said. "Do you really want me to stay there?"
"You just had to mention that, didn't you?" Alex said, looking annoyed. "We'll move to the White House."
"No, I want to stay here," she said. "I want to make an actual house in here. It can be our special little getaway."
"You know if I do it for you, I'll have to do it for the others as well, right?" Alex said. "Are you really interested in playing the harem game?"
"No... but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," Susan said. "I believe you'll continue maintaining this tacit separation and keep your so-called women isolated from each other. Especially the main wives, am I right?"
"If I let you stay here..." Alex said, lowering both hands and squeezing her ass. "You won't want to leave."
"I'm sure-haah," Alex rose Susan higher, while holding her by her hips, interrupting her words with a gasp. "I'm sure you'll...take measures...to ensure that doesn't happen," she said, amidst moans as Alex slowly started fucking her.
"We can make a house on any of the planets," Alex said. "Why here, specifically?"
"Because this is where...I feel...a sense of...belonging..." She suddenly pressed her lips against Alex, moaning into his mouth as she moved as per his guidance, rising and lowering on his cock with increasing speed.
Sense of belonging, you say...
By now, Susan was actively moving by herself and jumping on his cock, freeing Alex's hands from holding her hips. Instead, he brought them to her chest, caressing her pale breasts with a gentle touch as they bounced every time she fell on top of his cock.
His caresses slowly grew rougher as Susan picked up the pace, and he roughly started mauling her breasts as she continued rising and falling on top of his cock.
"Choke me..." She gasped.
"What a slut," Alex said before bringing his hand to her throat and clamping down as Susan's breath hitched. Her legs seemed to lose their strength as Alex supported her movements with his other hand, which he placed on her ass.
She immediately tightened as a weak whimper escaped her throat, making it difficult for Alex to continue in the same position, so he created a bed behind them and picked Susan up, letting go of her throat while making sure that she was still penetrated by his cock.
As she gasped from the returning airflow, a pleasurable moan escaped her throat, and Alex felt her shiver in his arms with a small orgasm.
"How disobedient," he said. "Not even asking for permission before cumming. You need punishment."
Putting her down on the bed, Alex put his hand on her face, blocking both her mouth and her nose as he started thrusting inside her tightness, feeling her inch closer to another orgasm. While ensuring that she couldn't breathe, he lowered himself and took one of her nipples into his mouth, teasing the sensitive nub with his tongue and teeth. His other hand was on her abdomen, gently massaging the area while using his thumb to stimulate her clit.
"Aa..." Susan's red face had a slightly desperate expression as she looked at Alex with a deep intensity, seemingly peering into his soul with her eyes.
"About to cum?" Alex asked, getting his answer from the change in Susan's eyes. He kept fucking her and finally loosened his grip over her face. "Then do it."
He timed it with the moment that air flowed to her lungs, deeply intensifying her orgasm as she squirted all over his abdomen and screamed, barely able to get any air into her lungs. Her legs writhed, and her hands tightly clutched the bedsheets as her torso convulsed under Alex's assault.
A few seconds later, as Susan was still riding her orgasm, Alex once again clasped his hand over her mouth and nose, blocking her from getting any air. He switched to her other breast, using his teeth to stimulate the sensitive nub as she tensed immediately under the breathless sensation.
He didn't stop fucking her, nor let her breathe until he felt her getting closer to another orgasm, at which point, he once again allowed her to breathe at the moment her climax hit.
He was tempted to keep going for a third round, but Susan was already lightheaded and in no state to endure another orgasm of this intensity. So his movements grew gentler as he continued fucking her, inching toward his own orgasm as well.
As Susan inched closer to the third climax, which was much more on the mellow side since Alex was no longer choking her, he also felt like he was about to finish.
The two of them made out while climaxing together as Susan moaned into his mouth as a warm liquid filled her insides.
"I could get used to doing it in here..." Susan mumbled, licking her lip with a greedy look in her eyes. "Another round?"
"How about we finish building your little home first?"
"Right..." Susan's eyes brightened. "I have so many ideas. I don't just want a little house or something. I want a massive mansion. Like huge..."
"How huge exactly?" Alex asked.
"Like the kind of huge you see in old aristocratic estates. Marble flooring, a grand staircase splitting into two at the top, enormous chandeliers, and ceilings so high that your voice echoes if you shout. The whole nine yards. I also want a large garden, like the one over at the White House. With fountains and sculptures, maybe even a hedge maze."
"Right, do you want the automatic self-management of those hedges, or do you want to work on the maintenance yourself?"
"Don't be sarcastic..." Susan pinched his arm. "Let a girl dream, okay?"
"Go on..." Alex sighed, unable to help himself from hugging Susan as she continued speaking as if reading off a list of things.
"A library is definitely needed. And a lab, preferably underground... I like those rooftop pools on top of skyscrapers, but that wouldn't go with the aesthetic... A simple indoor pool works, I guess. A home theatre. Oh, and a dedicated music room as well. I have a small collection of vinyl records that I want to bring here."
"You forgot the sex dungeon," Alex said dryly.
"I didn't forget it. I just know that regardless of my choices, you'll definitely put one of those in."
"Okay, smartass, Alex spanked her ass. "Since you have so many ideas, you might as well help me build the damn place."
-x-X-x-
Alex got off the bed and picked Susan up in his arms.
"What are you doing?" She asked, wrapping her arms around his neck to support herself.
"Use your powers and help me isolate an area in this place, Alex said, having already moved a good distance away from all the items he'd placed here.
"How do you want me to isolate it? Like a big dome?"
"Make it a cube," Alex said. "It needs to be very large. At least ten miles long edge-to-edge."
"I want a mansion, not a small village," she said, raising her brows.
"You aren't the only one who will want a mansion. I don't want to do this a second time. On second thought, make it a hundred miles. I have just the island in mind to place here. It will serve as the long-term base of operations for you all."
"And you were calling me out on being extravagant?!" Susan asked, astonished.
"Stop dallying..." Alex shifted his hand that was under her back and squeezed her breast from the side before pinching her nipple.
"Nhh..." She shivered from the sensation. "Stop...I'm still sensitive."
"All right," he said, letting go and gently flicking her sensitive nub with his thumb.
Susan sighed, shaking her head in defeat, and closed her eyes to concentrate. She started with a small cube between her hands, then threw it out in front of her. The cube rapidly grew to a massive size, reaching almost a mile on all sides within a second as it continued expanding. Frowning a little, she further expanded the cube, taking a few seconds to expand it to such a size that it could comfortably hold the entire city of San Francisco.
By now, the cube's size had reached the size of eight miles per side, making Susan feel quite a bit of strain as she tried to continue expanding it.
"This-this is plenty...no?" She asked with a frown. "You can fit entire cities in this kind of space."
"Make it bigger," Alex said. "I have my eye on an island that I'll be transporting here. It needs that kind of space.
"I wish I'd just asked for a simple two-bedroom villa..." She said weakly. "I don't think my powers can stay under control if we go any larger, Alex..."
"Nonsense," he said. "Your powers barricaded multiple planets at the same time and shifted them
around. This is nothing in front of that scale."
"What happened to me after that, I wonder..." She spoke through gritted teeth, half from annoyance, and half from the strain.
"And you came out all the more powerful for it," he said. "I know you can handle it. Stop trying to control your powers and let them go."
"But then the cube will destabilize and collapse," she said.
"You are treating your powers as if they need to be under your absolute control. It's like you are using one of your hands to control the movements of the other. That's not how it works, does it? Your powers are the same. Let loose."
"But...but what if the force fields go out of control? I don't want to hurt you..."
"Do you really think you can hurt me, Sue?" Alex asked, a teasing smile on his face as he put her down on the ground. Putting his hands on her shoulders, he made her keep facing the cube in front of her. "You can let your powers loose all you want; it won't matter. You are still my masochistic little sub."
She snorted at him, still barely maintaining control over the massive city-sized cube floating in front of her.
"Worse comes to worst, I'll forcefully restrain your powers," Alex said, moving his hands lower along her arms as Susan barely reacted to his touch. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he pulled her into a hug. Since they were both naked, she could intimately feel a source of warmth on her lower back. "Now go, let everything out."
Susan took a deep breath, feeling her heart race. For once, instead of trying to calm it down, she leaned into the feeling, pulling on her powers with an almost reckless abandon as invisible waves erupted from her, slamming into the giant cube in front of her as it resumed its rapid expansion.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead as Susan continued releasing invisible waves out into the endlessly vast expanse of nothingness in front of her.
"That's enough..." Alex whispered in her ear, gently holding her in his arms without the slightest sexual action as Susan came back to her senses and felt the size of the cube that she'd created while loosely maintaining its size.
"That's..." Her voice came out hoarse, a sharp pain hitting her throat.
"Easy..." Alex whispered in her ear, his hands rising along her sides and cupping both her breasts to massage them as a comforting sense of pleasure spread through Susan's body. "You've been screaming for the past two minutes."
"I didn't...I didn't even realize..." She said, her voice much better as Alex slowly healed her throat. "That cube has to be-has to be over a hundred miles in size, right?"
"Two hundred," Alex said with a chuckle. "If I didn't stop you, you'd probably have kept going."
"That was all me?" She asked, an expression of disbelief on her face.
"All you. If anything, my involvement stopped you from continuing," he said. "And check the accuracy of the shape. It may not be as sharp as your previous manual control, but it's still a cube, isn't it?"
"Hmm..." She nodded, seeming to still be in contemplation.
"Now keep that cube stable as I solidify this space and bring in the water and island," Alex said as a blue glow immediately shone through Susan's cube, illuminating its sheer scale and size. On all sides, it looked no different from an endlessly stretching wall. The translucent blue illuminated by the space stone and the omnipresent darkness all over Alex's soul seemingly formed entirely different areas.
"That looks... terrifying..." Susan said.
"Getting megalophobic?" Alex teased her before squeezing her breasts roughly, eliciting a cute gasp from Susan.
"After experiencing your dick?" She retorted. "I can't imagine anything larger..."
"Ahem... Really?" Alex coughed, his hands pausing for a moment as he processed her words.
"Aha! I got you flustered," she said triumphantly. "You owe me."
"You little brat," he said, showing no displeasure on his face. "Fine, I'll eat you out later. First, let's go inside..."
"Is it already done?" She asked, seeing a red glow also emerge from behind them and illuminate the wall she'd created. By now, the space stone had solidified the boundary walls sufficiently so that she no longer needed to maintain the cube with her powers.
"Just the outer walls," he said. "The inside is still empty."
With a thought from Alex, their positions shifted, and the translucent wall in front of them disappeared. Susan blinked and realized that the wall was now behind them. Since her powers were intimately involved in the frame's creation, she could instinctively sense its presence.
"How did we suddenly move inside?" She asked. "The Space Stone?"
"We're inside my soul, Sue," Alex said. "I can move things wherever I want with a mere thought. And I don't need Space Authority to do that."
"What's that?" She noticed a speck of blue up above and turned her head up.
"That, my dear Susan," Alex tightened his grasp over her breasts and toyed with her nipples. "Is the sky."
"Wha...t..." Her eyes widened at the sight as the blue speck rapidly expanded in the distance and bathed the entire darkness in blue. The sun appeared on the horizon, looking like it was just rising into the sky as clouds followed, appearing in the plain blue sky. Soon, the entire inside of the cube was covered in blue. Though that was only true for the walls and the sky, since the bottom of the cube was still the same void as before.
"How does it look?" Alex asked.
"Like you could kidnap a small European country and fit it in here with plenty of space to spare..." She said. "How big is this island you're planning to bring in?"
"Not big enough after you overdelivered on the size of the cube," Alex said. "Luckily, I have another island in my sights. I just need to deal with the pesky volcano on it. Nothing a little Reality Stone modification won't fix."
"Please don't destroy Earth..." Susan said. "Any of them. Even if it's one of the ones that your enemies are invested in."
"I may be bloodthirsty, but I know how to read the room," Alex said. "No need to worry. Just enjoy the view as I massage you..."
"There's another spot you could massage for me, you know?" She said sultrily.
"Yeah?" Alex asked, promptly freeing her left breast and moving his hand along her abdomen to focus on another spot. Hearing Susan moan as his fingers entered her depths, Alex smiled and activated the next step of his plan, and started sucking away water from multiple planets.
-x-X-x-
Pleasurable moans escaped Susan's lips as Alex's fingers stirred her depths while toying with her breasts. Her entire body was limp, leaning against him and at his mercy, but her eyes were still fixed on the scene in front of her.
After the sky was formed, with clouds and the sun, even some faint twinkling of distant stars seemed visible in the early morning daylight. Next, multiple black masses appeared in the distance, rapidly expanding and covering the area as if some anomalous horror phenomenon was taking place.
"Hey... What's going-ahn...on..." She said between moans. Her intense curiosity about the marvel in front of her was the only reason that arousal hadn't yet clouded her mind.
"I'm pulling water from twenty different Earths, Alex said. "After all, we're dealing with multiple quintillion liters of freshwater. If I did that to one Earth, we'd run out of freshwater sources long before filling this place. I probably don't need to tell you the consequences of emptying more than a quarter of all freshwater on the planet, do I?"
With his words, massive amounts of water started pouring down from the black portals, rapidly filling the bottom of the vast space.
As the water continued pouring, Susan even noticed some aquatic fauna mixed in.
"What's with the fishes?" Susan asked,
"I might want to fish, Alex said casually. "What if we have a kid later? It's important to have fishing trips occasionally."
"K-kid?!" Susan panicked a little at Alex's words. Contrastingly, her insides immediately tightened around Alex's fingers as if trying to suck them in. Her body's response made him smile amusedly as he leaned forward and started teasing her ear with his tongue, earning him multiple moans from Susan.
"It's like you're making an aquarium..."
"That's putting it lightly..." Alex said, a scoff escaping his lips as he hooked his fingers, making Susan tense up as she felt a jolt rush through her entire body, a loud moan erupting from her throat. "The largest aquarium in the world only has somewhere around eighty million litres of water. I'm pulling in around six to eight quintillion litres of water. Ten orders of magnitude more. Compared to Earth, it's around thirty percent of all freshwater. Including continental ice sheets, glaciers, and the groundwater, which constitutes most of it. That's why I'm dividing it up into twenty parts."
Soon, a third of the cube was filled with water. But that wasn't all.
What followed the water was the seabed. Large rocks, silt, soil, sand. Everything rushed through the portals alongside a multitude of aquatic fauna. The large amount of loose earth and rocks seemed like they were gushing through the portals like a liquid, endlessly pouring into the water. Eventually, even that stopped. But the portals remained open as air from multiple Earths rushed through the portals to fill up the remaining open space.
At the same time, as air started filling the vacuumed area, a red glow passed through the water, modifying the reality for the loosely spread plants and sediment, and cleanly spreading everything along the bed with an empty area in the middle to prop up the island.
Alex arranged the seabed in a way that much of it was extremely varied. Some areas were seventy to eighty miles deep, while others were protruding out of the water, forming large mountains that would soon become the shallows once the island came in.
As the water level settled, Alex was still left with a hundred miles overhead to serve as the sky. It was more than enough considering the Kármán line was barely around sixty miles above sea level. Once the island came in, the water level would likely stabilize at around fifty miles below the limit.
With aquatic flora and fauna solidly handled, and the area filled with air, it was time for the final piece of the puzzle.
The ten portals coalesced into a single one with a radius easily surpassing a hundred and fifty miles, which was larger than many smaller countries.
"Sue..." Alex said playfully as the woman in his arms trembled, her moans growing louder as he twisted her nipple while fingering her. "You aren't about to cum without my permission, are you?"
"N-no..." She said weakly before moaning. The guilt in her tone was clear as day as her hips swayed with the movements of Alex's fingers, consequently stimulating his erection that was pressing against her back.
"Then if you don't want me to slow down, what should you say?"
"Please, sir...please...I'm getting close..." She mumbled between moans. 'Can I cum? Can I? Please?"
"Not yet." Alex's words made her pleading only grow more desperate as her core tightened, desperately trying to hold back her emerging orgasm. Consequently, that only brought her closer to her peak, making it even harder for her to hold it back.
"Please..." She begged quite enthusiastically, pleading to be allowed to cum as Alex kept stringing her along for almost thirty seconds, at which point it became unbearable.
"You can cum, Sue," Alex whispered in her ear as his thumb released a faint electric jolt directly at her clit, immediately making her erupt with an intense orgasm as she squirted all over Alex's hand, her release spraying far beyond as it splashed into the water down below them. "Would you look at that, your squirt has served as this lake's inauguration..."
"Pervert..." She gasped tiredly before turning around and burrowing into Alex's arms, her release still dripping down her legs as she hugged him weakly. "Hold me..."
"Easy now," he said, holding her by her hips and helping her wrap her legs around his waist to hold her up. She let out a comfortable purr, resting her cheek on his shoulder and letting out ticklish breaths on his neck. "Don't you want to see the best part?"
"It's fine," she mumbled. "I know how The Truman Show goes..."
"Of course you do... Alex mumbled. "I should have kept this non-sexual."
Still, he turned around, not wanting her to miss the sight completely. After all, he would still have a full view of everything, whether he was actually looking or not. After all, everything was happening inside his soul. If needed, he could even feed the image from the other side directly into Susan's brain. However, that would require Alex to form the level seven bond with her first, merging with her nervous system and brain as he'd done with Gwen.
Following their minor banter, a large landmass started emerging from the portal, slowly lowering itself into the area. Unlike before, where everything immediately fell as if affected by the artificial gravity, this time, it was lowering slowly and steadily. At first, it was bare-bones rock that quickly lowered and entered the water, moving to the clearing that the Reality Stone had left while arranging the seabed. As the actual surface of the island emerged from the portal, the immense amount of untouched flora on the landmass surprised Susan.
"Did you really find a completely uninhabited island?" She asked, noticing the sheer lack of human traces on it.
"Of course not," Alex said. "It's a Wakandan nature reserve that remained hidden under a camo barrier. It's filled with extinct and exotic plants and animals. It still needs some terraforming and microbe treatments to make it habitable for people, but I'll make sure to keep the plants safe. They provide quite a nice view. As for the animals, I've already transferred a large number of them to other places. The naturally docile ones are going to stay in the open zoo that I plan to build on the mountain."
The island wasn't a simple plain but was covered in a complex mountainous range, the highest peak of which was higher than three miles. Not the largest mountain by any stretch of the word, but it would provide a very nice hiking trail once Alex got down to terraforming the place.
"I have a question..." Susan asked. "Why not just use the Reality Stone for everything? I doubt you care much about the cost since you already used it to set up the seabed and will use it to create the mansion..."
"Creating from scratch costs a lot more than possessing the materials and simply modifying them," Alex said. "Plus, creating an island as large as this one isn't nearly as easy as you might imagine. Just creating the sheer mass would waste plenty of my Bioenergy, not to mention that I would have to fret over the details of how to set up the terrain. It's much easier to work with an existing island."
"Right..." She said, a sense of disbelief ever-present in her voice.
"Now then, question of the hour, Alex said casually as if he hadn't just created an entire island biome in less than an hour by draining the Earth's resources. "What kind of view do you want? A beachside view, mountain view, or a special underwater view? I have all sorts of options available."
"What about like a secluded valley?" She asked. "There are plenty of mountains here. Is there like a secluded valley we can move to?"
"Seriously? I spent so much work making this an island, and you choose the one place where you can't view the water?"
"Hey, it's fine. I'd rather get a beachside view anyway," she said, immediately hanging up her tunes. "The valley just came to my mind..."
"Right," Alex spanked her ass. "The island only has one valley, and I have other plans for it. It's going to be off-limits for you girls."
-x-X-x-
Turning time back a little, while Alex and Susan were lounging around on the Asgardian Earth, waiting for the satellites to cover the planet, a guest arrived inside Gaia, specifically on Farm Earth. It was Felicia. Not the one who lived here, but the one from among the witches.
When the witch Felicia emerged from the portal, she found herself in an empty but well-lit room and looked around curiously. It was a small room, barely the size of a broom closet.
"Hello, Felicia." A voice from behind startled Felicia into jumping as a cute yelp of surprise escaped her lips.
Turning around, she realized that the portal had disappeared and found herself looking into a mirror.
"No..." She frowned. While she was dressed in her usual bodysuit with its deep cleavage and fur on either side of the opening, the woman in front of her was dressed like a professional white-collar worker, with a well-fitting shirt tucked into her office skirt and stockings underneath, along with stilettos on her feet.
"Yes, we are the same people, the woman in front of her spoke again. "I am your counterpart who belongs to this Earth, and I serve Apex. Please follow me."
Felicia quickly snapped out of her reverie and scrambled after her counterpart as she walked out of the room. "Hey, are we going to see Apex?"
"Not yet," she shook her head. "And from now on, please refer to him only as Master. You have not earned the privilege to refer to him by any other title."
Witch Felicia was taken aback for a moment before asking, "Is this...some kind of role-play thing? He mentioned it's going to be kinky, but..."
"It both is and isn't, Felicia answered. "It is a role-play, but it doesn't really stop. Apex won't completely break the line between reality and role-play, but he will make sure you forget that it exists."
"I don't follow..."
"You don't need to," Felicia said before stopping in front of a door. "Go inside. There's an outfit for you on the bed. Wash up and wear it. I will return to fetch you in about an hour. Take that time to gather your thoughts. Do you understand?"
"I do..." Witch Felicia nodded, looking at the swaying platinum blonde hair of her doppelganger as she walked away. "I was expecting something weird when he mentioned a companion, but to do this kind of thing with a doppelganger..."
She shook her head and took a deep breath before entering the room.
...
In another room in the same wing of the White House, Felicia was standing in front of Alex, her hands clasped in front of her and her head lowered as she fidgeted with her fingers.
"Do I also have to wear that embarrassing outfit in front of her?" She asked, reluctantly glancing at the items that Alex had prepared for her.
"Naturally," he said with a smile, standing in front of her with his arms crossed. "I won't be giving you any special treatment here."
"How mortifying..." She mumbled and started unbuttoning her shirt.
As her clothes slipped off her body, the latex bodysuit was slowly revealed in all its glory, tightly hugging her figure, not leaving anything to the imagination. With a reluctant expression, she picked up the first item, which was a black bra. At the same time, the latex bodysuit covering her started receding into her body, baring her skin to Alex's eyes.
Feeling the air on her bare skin, Felicia couldn't help but feel goosebumps rise along her spine. After all, her skin was quite sensitive, considering Alex rarely, if ever, let her experience any bodily stimulation outside of the time he pleasured her. Normally, she couldn't even feel the presence of the clothes she wore every day.
Alex admired Felicia's pale breasts, with her pink nipples already having perked up, tempting Alex to suck and play with them.
As she put the bra on, an embarrassed blush appeared on her face as she looked down at the cutout that revealed quite a tempting cleavage. It was shaped like the head of a cat, lined with a girlish pink, and even had pink whiskers on it to complete the look. Moreover, the soft fabric of the bra completely failed to hide the outline of her erect nipples, making her feel even more conscious.
"Are you really that embarrassed?" Alex asked. "This is far from the most intense thing we've done."
"We don't usually have company... I'm embarrassed thinking about the reaction of that other Felicia," she snapped at him.
"How cute," Alex smiled. "Keep going."
Giving him an annoyed side-eyed look, Felicia wore the matching thong that had a slit right along the middle, lined with the same pink as the bra for easy access. Next, she wore the garter belt around her waist and sat on the bed to pull up matching black stockings over her legs, and attached them to the garters hanging from the belt around her waist. Finally, she pulled up two sheer gloves on her hands that ended in stretchy lace, which quickly conformed to her wrists.
"There is no cat more beautiful than my bashful Felicia, Alex said as he approached her. At the same time, she felt the clothing she'd just worn squirm and shift around as it automatically adjusted itself to perfectly hug her body.
"Stop..." She said, looking away with an embarrassed blush.
Alex smiled and cupped her cheek, his thumb tracing along her lips as he made her look at him. He stared into her eyes with a fond look that quickly overwhelmed Felicia.
"What?"
"Nothing," Alex said, shaking his head. "Let's go."
His hand slipped lower and attached a leash to Felicia's collar, along with a belt that was attached to the same front clasp.
Hearing the sound of the leash's clasp attaching to her collar and seeing it wrapped around Alex's hand, Felicia's instincts seemed to take over as she fell to her knees, naturally getting ready to crawl.
Alex didn't say anything and started toward the door as the bell on Felicia's collar audibly chimed with each movement she made.
"Meow..." She whined at Alex.
"Right, I almost forgot..." He said, creating a pink ribbon in his hand and kneeling before Felicia. He gave her a smile before wrapping the ribbon around her head, making two rounds before tying it in the form of a bow right at the bridge of her nose. With her eyes blocked, she was effectively blindfolded.
"Uuu..." She didn't seem pleased by his actions and protested with a whimper.
"Be good now," Alex said, patting her head and adding a headband that had cat ears attached to it.
However, this one matched her hair instead of the black theme of the rest of her outfit. As he fixed it in her hair, Alex moved to Felicia's back and observed the distinct lack of a tail behind her. Putting his hand on her ass, he squeezed her supple flesh, evoking a faint whimper from her lips.
"Your counterpart is already making you lucky. Because she's new, I won't use the anal plug tail so soon. You get to wear the one that comes with this costume..."
Felicia immediately mewled cutely, pressing her face against Alex's arm and rubbing her cheek against his biceps with a fawning expression.
He shook his head at her antics and stood up as a white tail, matching her white ears, appeared behind her, attached to her thong. Once done, he once again tugged at her leash and led her out of the room.
They walked through the hallway, one master and one cat, quickly reaching the room where Felicia had left her witch counterpart. Stopping in front of the door, Alex knocked on the door and tugged at the leash, giving Felicia a look. She immediately understood his intention.
"Fe-Felicia..." She said. "Are you ready?"
"I-I think so..." The witch's uncertain voice came from inside the room. "What am I supposed to do with this ribbon?"
"It's a blindfold," Alex was the one who answered instead. "Put it around your eyes."
At the same time, he pushed open the door and entered the room.
"Ah!" Witch Felicia was startled and quickly tensed up, her hands moving to hide the exposed parts of her body. "A-Apex..."
Alex frowned at her tone. "Felicia told you what you are to call me, didn't she?"
"S-sorry, m-master," she stuttered, still not noticing Felicia on the floor as she looked at Alex.
At the same time, Alex was also observing her. Unlike Felicia's black-themed outfit, Witch Felicia's outfit had a white theme with pink accents. Even though their outfits had the same design, the different colors gave them both vastly different feelings. The only common points between their outfits were the pink accents around the chest and crotch cutouts, and the white ears and tail that matched their platinum blonde hair.
"Hands on your sides," Alex said. "Being embarrassed is no reason for you to try to hide your body from me."
"Right..." She mumbled, her hands slipping away as she twisted her body a little, trying to make herself look as small as possible under Alex's gaze. When she lowered her eyes, a surprised squeak escaped her lips as she brought her hand to her face. "S-she's..."
"She's my pet," Alex said. "Just like you are about to be."
"Meow..." Felicia meowed annoyedly, hitting the side of Alex's leg with her head. He simply smiled in response and lowered his hand to caress her hair and headband.
"She's just being a little shy. Why don't you put on the blindfold so that she stops being so conscious?"
"I-I don't know how to form this kind of bow..." Witch Felicia looked at her counterpart's face, where the ribbon was wrapped around her head as if she were a gift.
"I'll help." Alex quickly tied the ribbon around her face in the same manner as Felicia and attached a leash to her collar along with a bell. "Now kneel. We're going to start with a walk around the garden."
-x-X-x-
Soon, six months had already passed, and Alex thoroughly enjoyed his life with two variants of his beautiful Black Cat. After the initial awkwardness, the two of them had grown increasingly familiar as their shared intimacy grew more intense with each passing day.
This was a novel experience not only for Witch Felicia, but for Alex's original Felicia as well, since he was usually much more restrained with her, only pleasuring her once a week, or sometimes reducing that to once a month on his whims.
In the nearly two decades that the two of them had spent together, this was the first time she had experienced such unrestrained pleasure, and it was addictive.
Witch Felicia, on the other hand, got to experience a facet of life that she'd never even imagined. Having had the same experiences as most of her variants, she was internally quite averse to sex, but Alex only needed a few days to loosen her inhibitions completely. Part of it had to do with the fact that he'd already done that for her counterpart. But part of it also had to do with the fact that Witch Felicia was here for a very specific goal.
She wasn't just falling into the sea of carnal desires and pleasure that Alex brought to the table, but she was also steadily growing closer and closer to achieving her goal of power. Every day she spent in endless depravity and bliss was a day she felt her magic power actively growing stronger.
At the same time, while enhancing her magic capacity and improving her body with small amounts of Bioenergy, Alex continued observing how she affected her surroundings during her heightened emotional responses. With ethereal powers that couldn't be expressed physically, things generally boiled down to emotional responses in most circumstances. And Witch Felicia was no different. Alex had already grasped quite a large number of the underlying principles of her luck powers.
Additionally, he'd also observed that both women had a sense of resonance when it came to their powers. He'd already isolated their souls through their collars to ensure they didn't get too entangled with each other. But even with the isolation, their bad luck auras seemed to resonate and amplify each other, constantly causing bad luck to befall the people working in the White House. Alex also noticed that he seemed to be an exception to that bad luck aura. Whether it was because it was incapable of affecting him, or if both Felicias were subconsciously protecting him, wasn't something he'd been able to determine yet.
Today was a significant milestone as Witch Felicia was about to surpass Felicia in how much of her body had been deeply explored by Alex.
The three of them had just returned from a walk in the garden, and Alex let go of the two leashes he was holding and sat down on the bed. Looking at the two identical women kneeling in different positions, he couldn't help but admire their differences. While they were both dressed in identical latex bodysuits and wore the same white cat-ears headband and white anal plug tail, their temperaments were visibly different.
His original Felicia was a little on the reserved side, looking at him with longing and hints of desire, but also restraint. Her posture expressed the same, with her folded legs pressed together and her arms placed in a way that her breasts were somewhat hidden from Alex's direct sight, yet still giving him a tantalizing temptation.
Witch Felicia, on the other hand, had a much bolder expression as she looked at him with shining desire in her eyes. Her posture was also much more provocative as she pushed her ass out and tilted her body in a way that Alex got a full view of her breasts.
"Come here." At his words, both women immediately crawled toward him, Felicia a step slower than her witch counterpart as she pressed her face against Alex's crotch, using her teeth to open his zipper and button before freeing his cock. Before her counterpart could arrive, Witch Felicia had already taken Alex's erection into her mouth and was moaning while taking him deep into her throat.
Felicia glanced at her with barely hidden scorn and let out a very cat-like hiss before turning away. Alex could almost hear the thought of 'Slutty vixen...' going through Felicia's head and smiled. He patted her head, combing through her hair before guiding her forward to join Witch Felicia, who immediately made room for Felicia and focused solely on the shaft. Felicia lowered her head and started focusing on Alex's sack and the base of his shaft.
As the sounds of their constant sucking filled the room, Alex let out a deep groan, patting both of their heads as they tacitly changed positions, exchanging their targets as Felicia took his shaft into her mouth, leaving her counterpart to work on his sack.
As the minutes passed, the two women continued switching their targets, giving Alex the full experience of having his cock worshipped.
'I'm close,' he announced before letting go of both women's heads as they momentarily recoiled, freeing his cock.
He groaned as white liquid spurted out on both of them, covering their faces as Alex pumped his cock a few times. Looking at the remains on it, Witch Felicia didn't hesitate and immediately leaned forward to clean his cock.
Felicia glanced at her overeager counterpart with a scoff before looking up at Alex and blinking with a tempting smile. She sensually licked the cum near her lips and showed a satisfied expression, capturing all of his attention.
Scheming little minx... He thought as he looked at Felicia's tempting expression.
"Felicia," he said, capturing both of their attention. "Good work; now get on the bed."
The two women were quickly on the bed, half-sitting and leaning back, looking at Alex with needy eyes.
While their hands and arms were free, with soft mesh gloves on, their legs did not have that privilege and were wrapped in bitchsuit sleeves that kept them folded. Of the original slutty cat cosplay outfits, all that remained were the headband and the tail, which was now an accessory that was kept in place through a butt-plug. Aside from that, they were currently wearing matching string bikinis that included a skimpy thong and a thin top that barely covered their nipples and provided no other means of cover. The vast expanses of skin that they revealed when crawling around in the garden were certainly a sight to behold.
Alex silently admired the scenery in front of him for a few seconds before hooking his fingers through their tops and pulling away their skimpy bras to grab their breasts.
"Who wants to go first?" Alex asked, toying with the soft mounds of flesh in his hands.
Felicia responded with a sensual mewl, pushing her chest forward into his hand and continuing to meow needily.
Witch Felicia, on the other hand, had gotten impatient.
"Ouu... Me master... She pleaded, making Alex smile as he grabbed her nipple and twisted it, prompting a painful moan through her lips.
"I haven't allowed you to speak yet, Felicia, he said. "Open your mouth."
*..." Witch Felicia froze at his words and immediately whimpered, putting on a pitiful expression. But that only made Alex raise his brow, and she immediately fell in line. "Aa..." She parted her lips with eyes full of reluctance as Alex freed her nipple and created a muzzle in his hand, but its purpose was different from a conventional muzzle. The mouth part had a wide opening that forced her lips apart and settled in place, forcing her tongue to hang from her mouth. As for the nose, it had two small protrusions that were affixed to her nostrils, allowing her to breathe through the muzzle's nose.
A pained whimper escaped Witch Felicia's mouth as Alex forced it open with the gag. It looked less like a muzzle and more like a cat-like snout that was shaped like an actual cat's mouth and nose, while her tongue hung out from the middle.
Felicia's smile had hints of smugness as Alex put her counterpart in the predicament that she'd been subject to far too many times. Most of the time, Alex would block the nose attachment, forcing her to breathe through her mouth as saliva constantly dripped from her tongue.
Before she could be smug for too long, she realized that Alex was standing between her legs, having already ripped her thong away as his cock pressed against her entrance. As for Witch Felicia, after toying with her tongue for a few seconds, he did the same thing to her thong and pushed his fingers into her pussy.
'Mwhn..." Felicia barely maintained her composure as Alex's cock penetrated her wet insides. With the tail plug stimulating her anal cavity, Alex's cock hit all the right spots to send an intense jolt of pleasure through her body as it penetrated her. Her arms lost their strength as she fell on her back, helplessly moaning for Alex's cock. He grabbed her side and pulled her a little closer, starting to thrust into her pussy.
At the same time, Witch Felicia's moans sounded even more animalistic due to the nature of her gag as Alex roughly rubbed her G-spot every time his middle and ring fingers entered her. His rough movements meant that his palm slapped her pussy every time his fingers went deep inside. She felt electric jolts rush through her whole body from her clit with every slap, unable to suppress the bubbling climax that threatened to overtake her consciousness.
Even as she climaxed, Alex had no intention of stopping his actions and kept roughly fingering, intent on forcing even more orgasms out of her before the Felicia that he'd spent decades training came a single time.
In the background, as he triggered intense emotional fluctuations in Witch Felicia, Alex was actively using Chaos Magic to analyze and observe the ethereal frequency of energy that she emitted unconsciously. Unlike some kind of energy or reality-altering effect like Authorities, Felicia's bad luck was based on an ever-alternating frequency. He'd spent the past six months specifically trying to decipher the pattern behind that frequency and control it.
For simplicity's sake, he'd dubbed it the Probability Frequency. This frequency, unique to Felicia Hardy, interacted with everything around it, constantly manipulating minute probabilities that would eventually lead to macroscopic outcomes skewing toward negative events, or bad luck, so to speak. Both Felicia and Witch Felicia had the same frequency. It was simply that the Probability Frequency emitted by Witch Felicia was much more focused and targeted compared to Felicia's, which was much more on the haphazard side, affecting anything and everything around her.
Over the year, Alex planned to completely decipher the frequency and allow his Felicia to gain more control over it as well. Consequently, he might also be able to use the frequency manipulation aspect of Susan's powers to replicate this kind of bad luck phenomenon without making Felicia a primary host.
-x-X-x-
Earth-Z.
Alex and Laura's road trip had gone on for almost two weeks as they drove through the country with plenty of breaks in between. With the continental abomination already dead, the two of them had no trouble dealing with the occasional rabble that tried to attack them. Whether it was the weakest
Soon, they crossed over from Panama to South America. Immediately, their encounters shifted from the usually humanoid abominations to animalistic ones. Unlike North America, the South had far more wildlife, and it showed the moment Alex and Laura stepped on the continent. It went far enough that the Continental
For now, Alex had no plans to deal with the continental abomination as he and Laura spent a week driving through the continent and into the Colombian Rainforests. Specifically, they went into the Amazon.
This was the first time in a very long time that Laura had seen a lush jungle on her own planet. Somehow, the massive trees and flora of the Amazon had survived the nuclear blasts that destroyed most of the world. Unfortunately, the bioweapons and planetary radiation had still mutated the entire rainforest. Because of that, traversing the area meant Alex and Laura needed to deal with the endless number of flora-type abominations, thoughtfully dubbed by Alex as Plant Class> to parallel
To move to the spot where Alex had found the X-Men, they had to go through the dense tree abominations, which, unlike every other type, were far too strong in terms of defense. Even Laura's claws, made of an adamantium alloy, had quite a bit of trouble cutting through them. If not for the fact that she possessed a Low Cosmic Physique, it would be extremely difficult for her to handle the branches that kept shooting toward her.
The larger issue was that they were in a rainforest, with a nearly endless number of trees all around them that kept attacking them.
At this moment, Alex was faced with two options. One was to wipe the entire forest off the map. The planet was already unlivable for normal people. Keeping the forest alive only meant keeping a problematic hazard. The other one was to simply bypass the trees and directly teleport to their destination.
To save time and not accidentally kill Laura's old friends, he decided to go with the second option for now. But the removal of these rainforests was something he'd added to his agenda.
With that, he used his
The moment Laura stepped through the portal, a large number of thorny vines shot toward her as the swampy mud underneath her tried to rise and envelop her boots. Before any vines could touch her, a powerful discharge of lightning exploded around her, directly vaporizing the mud underneath that was trying to consume her. As for the vines, while many were burnt off and smoking, the trees were far more resilient to lightning.
The portal Laura had stepped out of had morphed into Alex's figure, and he frowned annoyedly.
"These things are more troublesome than they are worth. Once we're done with these guys here, I'll carpet bomb every single forest that remains on this planet... A wasteland world should be an actual wasteland."
"Have you already started destroying the forests on your planets?" Laura extended her claws and swiped through the approaching vines that were trying to attack her again.
"Don't be ridiculous, I'm all for sustainable development and preserving history," Alex said, directly devouring the approaching branches that Laura's claws couldn't cut through like butter.
The two of them casually walked forward for a few more seconds while dealing with the attacking plants, neither looking too troubled.
Suddenly, the air in front of Alex and Laura shifted and rippled. They didn't stop and continued forward as an invisible membrane tried to halt their advance. The air seemed to turn viscous, as if they were trying to walk into honey. Moments later, however, the membrane allowed them through, rippling once more as the view in front of them shifted entirely, the trees vanishing as if they stepped into a different area entirely.
In front of them, instead of the trees, was now a large, expansive mansion. More prominent than the mansion, however, were the people. Normal people, mutants, were freely walking around the area without any radiation-blocking equipment. They weren't wearing oxygen masks either and were breathing the air around them comfortably. Alex and Laura had just walked through the jungle, and Alex could confidently claim that the air here was only more toxic than the irradiated desert, not less.
Not only that, but the trees that had been targeting Alex and Laura were stuck outside the barrier. For all intents and purposes, this place was completely isolated from the outside world.
"I feel like I'm back in the Sanctuary..." Laura mumbled, but Alex had a thoughtful expression on his face. The barrier, its method of identifying a person's X-Gene to manage entry and exit, and the camouflage effect.
Everything reminded him of the Bastion's technology. Since he'd inherited the Bastion's Ultron, he knew the ins and outs of everything that happened to Laura. There were no records of any interactions with the X-Men once the Bastion captured Laura and started using her as their healing potion bank. Though it wasn't impossible that the deal had already been struck between Tony and the X-Men before Laura was even captured, or Ultron took over Tony's body.
He wished that wasn't the case, considering this place was equivalent to Laura's maiden home. But he wasn't going to completely rule out the possibility that Laura had actually been sold out by Charles. Certain variants of the man were quite intense about the whole Greater Good spiel and had no bottom line.
As Laura and Alex were observing the mansion and the surroundings, an aging man with no hair on his head seemed to rush out of the main entrance in a wheelchair. It was Charles, pushing his wheelchair out using his psychic powers. Behind him, two familiar faces, Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe, followed.
Alex and Laura didn't do anything and silently observed the three people approach them.
The moment Charles identified Laura, his rushed expression shifted a little, a hint of complexity flashing in it before shifting to full concern as he continued moving forward. Ororo and Scott's reactions were much more pronounced as they directly exclaimed Laura's name and rushed forward to greet her.
"Laura!" Ororo directly pulled Laura into her arms as Scott stopped a step away, looking at her with concern.
Laura stiffened at the sudden hug, unsure how to respond, or whether she should step aside or not. After spending so many years with Alex, living a life of freedom and enjoyment, much of her resentment toward her so-called family had dissipated.
"You...look at you..." Ororo pulled back, looking Laura up and down. "You're all grown up."
"Yeah..." Laura answered succinctly, looking a little lost.
"All right, give her some space, Scott said from the side. "Don't smother her."
"I think she's the one with the assets to smother at this point," Ororo glanced at Laura's breasts and teased. "Who's your friend? Someone special?"
"Ahem," Laura coughed at Ororo's words and glanced at Alex. "This is Apex. You could say he's-"
"Charles, if you dare to send another probe into my head. I will raze this little place you have to the ground," Alex's frustrated growl made Laura widen her eyes. 'Don't fucking test me."
Ororo and Scott immediately looked at Charles and saw that the old man had a pained expression, with blood flowing from his nose.
"What have you done!" Scott yelled, his visor glowing red as his emotions grew agitated. Ororo was the same, her eyes gaining a silver glow as she prepared to activate her powers.
Laura looked at the duo's reaction and sighed, silently stepping back and extending her claws, ready to fight on Alex's side.
"Everyone, stop," Charles' voice rang through the mutants' heads. "I was in the wrong for probing this newcomer. Stand down."
The commotion had attracted quite a few of the mutants, one of whom was quite important to Laura: Wolverine.
Laura was already defensive and had her claws extended, her body tense and ready to spring into action. The moment she noticed Wolverine, all she saw was red.
Electric arcs appeared on her figure-hugging black combat suit as she leaped forward and immediately blasted Wolverine's chest with a bolt of lightning, sending the man flying. Before he could even land, her claw stabbed through his heart as she ripped the man in half.