Chapter 24
Begin Smut Scene
Harry slid his prick forward into Jennifer's green snatch and felt her slick sheathe mold around his manhood. The heat of her core was like a furnace and the pressure was definitely super-strength-enhanced. Harry moaned deeply in unison with Jennifer as he sheathed himself fully in her sex. Her fingers dug into his sides as they savored their first time together. Jennifer's mouth met his in a hungry kiss. Their tongues slid together. Harry broke the kiss and leaned back so he could admire her form. Her eyes were half-lidded with arousal. Her body was sculpted green glory laid out before him. Her legs were wrapped around his lower half.
"You are so beautiful," Harry whispered as he started moving his lower half back and forth, drawing his turgid organ through the resistance of her depths.
"And you are super hot," Jennifer replied in a throaty purr. "Your dick feels so awesome inside of me."
Jennifer rocked her hips upwards and drove her snatch around her lover's manhood. She was satisfied with the feeling of impact she felt when her sex met his groin. It was easy to move her form in any position now that she had super-strength. She pulled herself up onto his spear as he drove it down into her and happily noted he could support the greater weight of her denser physiology. He started stroking in and out with more than half of his length which only seemed to grow bigger. She felt an energetic sensation in her pussy coming from where his dick massaged her inner walls. It was more intense and pleasurable than any sensation she had ever felt outside of orgasm. She squeezed her kegel muscles around his shaft to show her approval and felt his hands slide down to her rump. He squeezed her butt to show his approval of her actions and so she started to squeeze and release her inner muscles repeatedly as he moved within her. He never stopped moving, sawing his hips back and forth between her spread thighs. She could feel his weight upon her but it wasn't as noticeable as it once would have been with her new physiology. Jennifer instead focused on the feeling of his stiff prick moving back and forth in her cunny, stretching her in all the right places.
"Harry...oh yes...you feel so fucking good inside of me," Jennifer whispered between moans. "Don't stop... don't ever stop," she urged against his ear before nibbling on the lobe.
Harry had no intention of stopping and he continued to pump her pussy with his prick. The feel of her kegel muscles flexing around the frenulum beneath the head of his dick was enrapturing and addicting. He just couldn't get enough of that sensation. Harry brought his mouth down to her neck and began licking and nibbling at her flesh. Something tasted profoundly right with her flesh. He would later realize it was pheromones. She was very compatible with him biologically. Harry's mouth kissed down to her breasts and Harry's lips encircled one of her nipples. Jennifer arched her back and drove her chest up into his hungry mouth. Heartbeat after heartbeat Harry stroked into Jennifer's folds and lost himself, lost all sense of time,
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within the embrace of her arms and vagina. She seemed to be just as into him. They moved together endlessly and neither juggernaut tired.
Jennifer wasn't sure how long she and Harry had been joined sex to sex but at one point she realized they were both hot and sweaty and she felt a yearning desire to do more. She held him tight in her embrace and then rolled them so that she was on top. She had gripped tight with her pussy so that he didn't come out of her. She barely even paused before she was rocking her hips back and forth riding his stiff prick. She loved the feel of it deep inside her from this new position. Harry groaned beneath her and stared up at her with a burning desire. His hands went to her hips and held her tightly as she started furiously moving her hips. She clamped down with her inner muscles as she rose up off of his lap before relaxing as she let her weight drop her back down onto his manhood with a satisfying slapping sound of flesh on flesh. Her juices lubricated everything. She had never been this hot and sex had never felt this good in her life. She was sure he was doing something with his powers to make things better for her. Each time she rose up off of his prick until only the head of his shaft was still within her she felt an emptiness and burning desire to have him back inside of her. The yearning to return him into her embrace increased with each stroke. She was driving herself down onto his dick within fifty strokes of this new position. She would have killed a mortal man. Harry in contrast moaned approvingly and used his grip on her hips and butt to aid her in her back and forth rocking. His hands began to slip around to cup her butt more. She leaned down to kiss him, to taste his mouth and tongue because she couldn't get enough of him. Then the entire situation intensified as she felt him intimately within her mind and her very being. She could feel what he was feeling and he could feel what she was feeling.
Harry pushed his magic and essence into Jennifer's form and their energies mingled along with their bodies. He gripped her perfectly sculpted green rear tightly as her sleeve slid up and down his pole. Her gash was liquid fire as it molded continuously around his organ. He was getting closer and closer to cumming at this point. With the doubled sensory input he could tell Jennifer was close too. Her body was screaming for her to climax and her hips changed into a blur as she used her super-strength to move faster and faster. A low guttural moan escaped her throat as she used all of her strength to move faster and squeeze harder with her inner muscles. She screamed and he bellowed as they came in unison. Their sexes pulsed and flexed around and inside one another. Harry's seed rushed forth into Jennifer's sex and her nectar filled her snatch and rushed out to coat his manhood. Their juices mixed inside of her body. The moment his first drop of seed hit her inner walls something strange happened. An exotic variant of gamma radiation blossomed in her snatch and reacted with his magic infused shaft. The mixture of energy drew his seed from his shaft and intensified his orgasm exponentially. Through their telepathic union she felt it too. They were both screaming and writhing as they held tightly to one another. The ecstasy was beyond intense. Their minds held on for minutes before they passed out from the euphoria.
They came to minutes later still joined with the residual pleasure waning from their joined sexes. "What was that?" Jennifer said after gasping awake at the same time as Harry.
"I don't know. My sensors show it was some exotic energy phenomenon. I need more data to tell," Harry replied.
"Well it was fucking awesome!" Jennifer cried with a huge grin. "That is was," Harry agreed. "Let's see if it happens again," Jennifer suggested. "Alright," Harry agreed.
Jennifer and Harry decided to experiment with Jennifer's possible new ability via different positions. They experimented for days.
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The Institute...
"Girl, I thought you were going to kill that version of Harry," Jean said as the redhead used a weight machine specially designed for those with super-strength. Jean was practicing integrating her telekinetic powers more seamlessly with her physical strength. "I mean...you lasted for days."
Smirking while using her own weight machine Jennifer said, "I know...I've got mad stamina. But seriously...he gives as good as he gets."
Jean smirked too and said, "Trust me...I know."
Jennifer having taken the next step into being one of Harry's lovers was visiting the other facets of his life on Earth. All of Harry's lovers rotated through exploring where he made his home.
"You know...this was a really good idea...all of us getting to know one another," Jennifer put forth. "It definitely prevents the jealousy."
Harry's girlfriends had held a discussion about getting to know one another and the suggestion had been wholeheartedly supported.
"Yes it does," Jean agreed. "Though I admit Thresh can take a bit of getting used to."
"True. She's very...alien in her thinking and mannerisms," Jennifer mused. "But it's nice not to be the only girlfriend with strange colored skin." Just then the door to the Institute's gym opened and Felicia walked in.
"Hey ladies, how's it going?" Felicia asked.
Jean and Jennifer didn't miss the fact that Felicia was already sweaty and walking a little funny.
"Great...but I bet you're feeling better," Jean suggested.
The emotions and mood Felicia was projecting that even Jean's limited empathic abilities could pick up on.
"You certainly smell like you were having a good time," Jennifer suggested.
Jennifer's senses were a little stronger than baseline humans.
"You should try bringing up having babies with Harry sometime. It will have interesting effects on your love-making," Felicia suggested.
"I don't think I'm quite ready for babies yet," Jean said. "What about you Jennifer?" Jennifer was in her mid-twenties. "I've thought about it. I find myself thinking about it more and more lately," Jennifer admitted.
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"I have been the same way. That was why I brought it up with Harry," Felicia explained.
"I take it you got a positive reaction?" Jennifer questioned.
"Most definitely," Felicia said with a grin.
"I have heard horror stories about what it does to a woman's body. And then there is the obligation to take care of them for so long," Jean pointed out.
"I told Harry I had some of those same concerns," Felicia admitted. "He had some..."
What Felicia was going to say was cut off as a portal of some sort opened inside the gym and a white haired man stepped out. The man had a nasty scar on his face and had definitely seen some better days.
"He smells like Logan," Jennifer said as she stood.
"Listen ladies, tell me where Charles Xavier is and nobody needs to get hurt," Cable stated.
Harry appeared in the room standing at the doorway staring intently at the white haired man.
"What period in the future did you travel back from?" Harry asked Cable. "I would like to point out that this isn't quite your past. Your temporal portal was flawed."
Cable had been tensed for battle and didn't let his guard down despite Harry's words. "How did you know I traveled back in time? And who the hell are you for that matter?" Cable questioned.
"My name is Harry Demire. But you might know my other name...Spider-Man," Harry replied. "I know you traveled back in time because I have available to me science far beyond this time period."
"Parker is Spider-Man. He sure as hell wasn't as built as you are in this time," Cable said. "What do you mean that this isn't my past?"
"You are from a divergent universe quite different from this one," Harry explained. "That is why I am so different."
Cable was thinking fast. He hadn't accounted for the presence of She-Hulk, Spider-Man, or the blonde bombshell standing next to the women. Cable had many tech advantages available to him but his supply of devices wasn't unlimited.
"No go, bub," Cable said. "I ain't buying it. This is a trick of Charlie's."
"Charles Xavier is no longer with the Institute. He isn't here. You know he can't enter your mind, Logan," Harry pointed out.
Cable pulled a device from his suit and activated which let out a blast of light and sound which was incredibly intense and irritating. Harry sensed a small object flying at him and spun back just enough to avoid the device. Lily told Harry from a quick scan that the device would have attempted to temporarily paralyze him. A device meant to neutralize mutant abilities was sent at Jean. Paralysis devices were sent at the other two women. Jean didn't dodge in time and the device stuck to her forehead. The device did absolutely nothing. Jean's bio-net AI countered the foreign technology's influence. Jennifer swatted the
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projectile away with a quick backhand. Like Harry, Felicia danced back out of the way.
Harry sent a stream of webbing at Cable. Cable danced past the first stream but his metallic arm was caught by a second stream and secured to a workout machine. With a growl of pain Cable unleashed his remaining set of Adamantium claws and tried slicing through the webbing. The webbing wouldn't cut. That only slowed Cable down momentarily before he switched to cutting the weight equipment. Cable dropped a device on the floor near the ladies. A green force-field went up cutting off the side of the gym with the three ladies on it. She-Hulk stepped forward and delivered a punch to the force-field just testing the strength. The entire room shuddered and small sparks played across the surface of the force-field generator.
"I'm impressed. I don't pop the claws for just anyone these days," Cable said.
"You don't have your healing factor anymore," Harry said with realization in his tone. "A lot has happened to you. Why do you want Xavier?"
"He destroys the future," Cable replied. "He needs to die."
Just then Jean shattered the force-field. Cable realized he was outgunned here. He activated his teleporter and fled the building.
"What was that all about?" Jean asked as the rest of the X-Men started entering the gym to investigate the disturbance.
At that moment another portal opened up. Jean, Felicia, and She-Hulk tensed ready for more action. "Cable, where is he? Did he get here yet?" Bishop demanded as he walked out of the portal. Bishop stopped suddenly as he spotted the impressive team waiting to greet him. "I think we need to have ourselves a chat," Harry told Bishop.
Bishop found this divergent universe he had traveled into very strange. He was standing in a briefing room. The room was made up of a holographic projector surrounded by multiple comfortable pieces of furniture. In quite a few of the love-seats were the women Bishop knew from his history had made up the X-Men of this time. There were more women as well. What was really strange to Bishop was that the same man sat in the love-seats with those women, Spider-Man. Only there were multiple copies of this alternate version of Spider-Man. Storm looked to be quite happily sitting in her partner's lap.
"Hmm...if this is the reaction me wearing my uniform pants earns I think I might have to go around wearing those bottoms all the time," Ororo sent to her boyfriend while enjoying something very turgid pressing against her bum.
"What can I say...you have a bloody great arse," Harry replied.
"Ok," Bishop said. "I was once allied with Cable. But he fell from the great man I knew to the psycho you had an encounter with. We were once part of a group that upheld the Xavier Doctrine above all else. It was the only thing our people had left to believe in. As time progressed Cable's mind started taking him in new directions. He pieced together tidbits of information from the past that were not really connected to form a theory that Xavier was somehow responsible for the world we lived in. Cable will not stop until Xavier is
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dead."
"I know I'm the last one that should be saying this given that Cable is an alternate version of me," Logan said. "But Cable may just be right. Our Charles Xavier is no saint."
"He isn't," Bishop replied. "How do you know?" Jean asked. "I just do," Bishop asserted. "Charles Xavier saved me from certain death. I can't believe that of him."
"We understand your feelings, Bishop," Jean said in a conciliatory tone. "We really do. We all looked up to Professor Xavier at one point or another. But he has proven that he is willing to do some very bad things to achieve his goals. He manipulates people on a grand scheme. But regardless of what your Charles did or didn't do...this is a very different world. Ours is a very different Xavier."
"I can see that," Bishop agreed.
Jean and the others didn't miss out on the fact that Bishop's gaze focused on her Harry and the other Harrys around the room.
"Cable has been tracked to an abandoned military facility in Finland," Harry announced. "The abandoned Weapon-X facility?" Rogue asked. "Yes," Harry confirmed. "Well I guess I had to face it sometime," Rogue said while inwardly cringing.
She felt her Harry hug her tighter and was comforted by his touch. Rogue knew he would never let any true harm come to her even if he would allow her to learn through non-fatal pain.
"Right, let's go," Ororo said encouragingly. When everyone was prepared Harry used his teleporter to get them to their destination.
Finland, Abandoned Weapon-X Facility...
"I always thought I would die here," Rogue whispered as she and her team remained alert for any sign of danger.
Harry was just about to comfort his girlfriend when an energy projectile impacted her shoulder. Rogue grunted more in surprise than pain. If it hadn't been for her body armor that shot would have taken her arm off at the shoulder. Harry immediately raised an energy shield between the X-Men and the enemy sniper. Four opponents stepped out from behind cover. The only woman went by the name Domino. A large black man was called Grizzly. A white man was called Hammer. And the fourth member who looked Native American was called Kane.
"Impressive," Domino called. "Are you going to hide behind an energy shield or fight us?"
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"What would be the learning opportunity in that," Harry said rhetorically.
Felicia and Jennifer had teleported while invisible as an unexpected and unpleasant surprise for the enemies of the X-Men in case needed. Harry dropped the shield and the battle was on. Grizzly transformed into a massive grizzly bear and engaged Colossus. Hammer appeared capable of directing large amounts of force into blows through his limbs. Too bad for him that Storm was wicked fast and able to direct hurricanes into very small regions of space and keep him back. He also had bionic arms with hands that detached and shot at opponents like rockets. But the one time he tried that Storm hit them with mini-lightning-bolts and fried their circuitry.
Even if Cable's troopers hadn't been outnumbered it became apparent that while they were well trained they weren't as well trained as the X-Men. The X-Men worked in teams of at least two. While one of the X-Men engaged an opponent the remaining team members would stand back and provide any backup that was needed. Cable decided to intervene to see if he could even the odds. Cable came out of the compound unleashing several small devices in the shape of spheres. The devices were a sonic grenade. The screeching sound emitted by the grenades under normal circumstances would have been debilitating without ear implants that all of the time travelers from Cable's future possessed. The X-Men were far from normal. Bobby lashed out with well-aimed ice-beams at the two sonic grenades nearest to him. Scott destroyed a third. Colossus simply stepped on the fourth and final sonic grenade.
Cable appeared momentarily surprised that his grenades had been so easily defeated. He shouldn't have been. Jean had used her telekinesis to create a physical barrier around her ears and had then used her telepathy to allow her teammates to focus past the pain.
"This has proven to be good training," Jean sent to Harry. "But the outcome seems obvious. I believe it may be time to end it."
"I think you are right," Harry agreed. Before fighting could resume a voice rang out.
"Enough," Xavier called from the side of the battlefield with a voice ringing with telepathic power. Xavier was sitting in a wheelchair with eyes only for Cable. "I hear you were looking for me. Well here I am."
"This has been a long time coming," Cable called while holding a small device in his hand.
Cable triggered the teleporter control which brought him close to his target. At the same time he reappeared Cable activated a fusion grenade. Jean and Harry shielded everyone else there from the resulting blast. A miniature star formed in front of everyone. When the light and smoke cleared there was nothing left but ashes.
"Be gone back to your own time," Harry warned Domino and her teammates.
Domino held up her temporal location device and triggered it. She wasn't eager to continue a losing fight. Her teammates did the same thing.
"Did Xavier just sacrifice himself?" Bishop asked. "No," Ororo said. "Don't believe everything you see."
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The bones flickered and a tiny floating holographic generator was revealed as the hologram shut down. "You fooled Cable," Bishop realized.
"Yes. Cable wanted Xavier so badly. All we had to do was make Cable believe he had killed Xavier," Harry replied.
"That even smelled like Charles," Logan pointed out. "I don't think Cable is dead."
"Maybe not," Jean agreed. "Time will tell."
"Very convincing," Bishop admitted. "What really happened between you all and Xavier?"
"Let's get out of here and we can tell you someplace more comfortable," Kitty suggested.
While the talking had been going on Harry had gone up to Rogue and laid his hand on her shoulder where the first shot had hit her armor. He channeled healing power into the soft tissue injury.
"Thank you lover," Rogue thought at her boyfriend. Harry responded with feelings of love rather than any coherent mental words before going about healing the
others of any minor injuries they suffered. After that everyone was teleported away.
Harry sat with Kitty on his left and Jean on his right in a love-seat in their shared living room within the Institute. He had an arm around each beauty. Playing out in a holographic projection before the trio was the WWH feed.
"I can't believe I was so devastated at Xavier's loss," Jean suggested.
In the WWH feed Xavier was still with the Institute and all of his misdeeds hadn't been revealed in quite the same light as they had with Harry present.
"I am pretty relieved that I am not leaving the Institute right now," Kitty admitted as she watched her counterpart pack up and leave the school. It wasn't just as a result of Xavier's death but that was certainly the straw that broke the camel's back. "And Scott was going to propose."
"I know," Jean said in equal surprise. "I have to say...not being able to read my boyfriend's mind all the time seems much preferable to the relationship my counterpart has with Scott."
"Except when I let you in at certain times," Harry sent to Jean while making sure Kitty could also hear his thoughts.
"Yes...but those times are different," Jean said while thinking of the times she made love with her boyfriend. "Those are times when experiencing what you are thinking and feeling enhance what I am feeling. No offense but I don't want to be in your mind when you are on the toilet."
"None taken," Harry replied. "Does that mean that you can hear our thoughts when the rest of us are going to the bathroom?" Kitty asked
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while feeling a bit unsettled at the thoughts.
"This universe is completely different in that regard from what we are seeing in the WWH feed, Kitty," Jean replied. "For one thing your bio-net A.I. is currently suppressing your randomly projected thoughts. Without the bio-net A.I. you would be broadcasting random thoughts so strongly I couldn't help but pick those thoughts up. Additionally your bio-net A.I. also seems to protect somewhat against unwanted telepathic intrusion."
"That is actually really good to know," Kitty said to Jean. To Harry she added, "And thank you for providing that protection."
Kitty kissed Harry lightly on the lips.
"No problem," Harry said. "Actually remind me later and I will teach you a technique that will allow you to use your phasing abilities to phase your mind to a dimension that most telepaths can't perceive. That way they cannot sense your mind to attack it."
"Wicked," Kitty said with a grin.
"That Charles Xavier certainly got a lot of attendees to his funeral," Jean noted. Jean continued with the mental conversation because she and her two companions both found it a more intimate form of communication. "I doubt our Charles would get so many attendees."
"Most certainly not," Harry agreed. "How are Moira and David doing? I haven't gotten a chance to visit them in a while," Jean asked as she
spotted their Moira's counterpart speaking with Lilandra at Xavier's funeral.
"They are both doing quite well. David will be much better in control of his abilities with the way he is being raised," Harry answered.
"I expected nothing less with you being involved," Jean noted fondly. "So it looks like if you hadn't gotten involved Bishop would have been stuck back here in our time period,"
Kitty noted as Bishop was observed still interacting with the X-Men in the WWH feed.
"That might have a major effect on how events play out given his knowledge of the future," Jean pointed out.
"A very different future," Harry added. "But we will see."
"I guess some things don't change. Colossus is still visiting Jean Paul at the Academy," Kitty said while watching Colossus interact with his boyfriend.
"And Logan is still going off again to search for the wife he can't remember," Jean mused. Logan's searches for his missing wife were fairly routine now. Logan would head out whenever the team had some downtime. "But thankfully we don't have to go asking Lilandra and her people for financial support."
The Institute was quite well funded just living off of the interest generated by the investments made with the captured Hellfire Club funds Jean had procured. That wasn't even mentioning Harry's personal wealth.
"That could be a bit awkward considering she is my girlfriend," Harry agreed.
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"You give us money all the time," Kitty pointed out. "Yeah...but those are gifts," Harry replied.
"Yes...but are you saying if you needed money and we gave it to you that you would feel awkward taking it?"
Kitty questioned.
"Not at all," Harry replied.
"Good save, buster," Jean said teasingly.
As the events in the WWH feed continued Harry and his girlfriends observed the alternate-Scott's big announcement.
"Wow...Scott is a major tool without you in the universe, Harry," Kitty told her boyfriend. "Yeah...just because he is the team leader doesn't give him the right to disband the X-Men," Jean said. Xavier in the universe from the WWH feed had left the school to Scott, Jean, and Ororo. Ultimately it was their collective decision. "At least he left the opportunity for Bishop to form another team. Ororo and I never spoke up in that universe. You must have given me confidence because I certainly wouldn't put up with that shit."
When the feed came to the big reveal about Xavier being alive, it was Kitty who asked the first question.
"Umm...Harry...I thought you used a hologram to trick Cable into thinking Xavier had been killed. If Cable's real mission was to trick us into thinking Xavier was dead while kidnapping Xavier to the future... then won't Cable be back? Shouldn't he have been back here already?" Kitty asked.
"He would have if Lily hadn't acted quickly enough. She realized what Cable was doing. The hologram was hard-light to make it more convincing. Lily allowed her hard-light generator to be taken to Cable's future," Harry explained.
The holographic and hard-light generators were tiny spheres that floated inside of the hologram or hard-light projection.
"Ah gotcha," Kitty said with understanding.
"So can you listen in on Cable now?" Jean questioned.
"Yep. His activities are being followed," Harry answered.
Jean deactivated the WWH feed.
"That is enough watching of the feed for one sitting," Jean sent with her thoughts turning amorous. "Let's do something more fun."
Harry didn't object to the redhead's desires and neither did Kitty.
A Beech on a Mediterranean Tropical Island...
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"What is it?" Emma asked as she felt a change in her boyfriend's hand movements.
Harry had been massaging Emma's back. She had been dating the world's most famous man for some time now and Emma decided she really enjoyed being with him. Of course she had to keep her secrets closer to her chest now that she was so close to Harry. She sometimes wondered if he knew what she was hiding. But she asked herself why he would keep quiet and not take any action if he knew. She found it was best not to focus on the what-if factor.
"Mystique has just been replaced by the mutant known as Mastermind or possibly a clone of Mastermind. I'm not sure because Mastermind was detained by S.H.I.E.L.D. after the fight that broke out at your school," Harry explained.
Harry did have a pretty good idea of the secrets his blonde girlfriend was keeping from him. But he hadn't looked too deeply into it because he quite frankly wanted to be surprised. Living as long as he had taught him that the surprises in life were what made things interesting.
"So Magneto must need Mystique for something," Emma mused. "I wonder what it could be." "Hmm," Harry said as he continued rubbing her back. Harry enjoyed the feel of Emma's supple flesh beneath his finger-tips. "And you're not going to tell me," Emma realized.
"Are you familiar with a group of mutants that call themselves the Morlocks?" Harry asked, seemingly changing the subject.
"No I am not. Why do you ask?" Emma queried.
"It appears they live underground in the sewer systems beneath Manhattan," Harry said. "One of the students at the Institute has just stumbled across them."
"Yuck...why would they live down there?" Emma asked.
"They live underground because their mutations cause them to look very different from humans. They have been shunned by society," Harry explained.
"What do you plan to do about them?" Emma inquired.
Emma knew her boyfriend well enough by this point in their relationship to know he would likely find a way to help out the Morlocks. He didn't like seeing suffering if he could change it. Though he wouldn't give away things generally without requiring the recipients to learn and grow as beings.
"I am still figuring that out," Harry replied. "Well while you are thinking lay down. It is my turn to rub your back," Emma urged.
Harry laid down on his towel and felt Emma get up and straddle his back. He felt as she started working his muscles. He also noticed her rubbing herself upon him. Harry smirked. He wasn't jumping right into bed with Emma and he knew it was driving her a bit mad. She would do things like this when they were dancing
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or just holding each other. He would pretend he didn't notice her climaxes but he definitely noticed. Harry was patient. He had all the time in the universe and many other beauties to satisfy his urges.
The Institute's Main Briefing Room
"Thank you for coming," Harry told his friends and companions after everyone had been seated.
"What's our mission?" Jean prompted her boyfriend.
"As you all know Kurt decided to leave the Institute for the immediate future," Harry said.
"Yeah...and I never understood why," Bobby stated.
There was a bit of tension in the air. Those who were dating Harry knew why. Most of the others did not.
"It is alright," Colossus said. "You can tell them."
Harry nodded agreement with the Russian before explaining, "Kurt's religious beliefs are causing him immense grief with Colossus' sexual preferences."
"Ah," Bobby said nodding in understanding. "I get it now." "You didn't call us here just to discuss that," Rogue pointed out. "Is Kurt in some kind of trouble?"
"He is although he doesn't yet know it. Kurt has happened upon a group of mutants calling themselves the Morlocks," Harry explained.
"That group that lives beneath the sewers of Manhattan which you told us about," Kitty said.
"Yes," Harry confirmed. "I have been studying them. The Morlocks don't exactly get the latest up to date news. They know about the X-Men from quite a few years in the past. But they know nothing of the X-Men since Xavier was ousted and I joined up. They are rather hostile towards us."
"And Kurt having been one of us won't be well-received," Ororo surmised. "Exactly," Harry agreed.
"So is our mission to rescue Kurt? I highly doubt he would be willing to come back here," Colossus pointed out.
"This mission has several parts. I want to make sure Kurt is safe, yes. But I also want to enlighten the Morlocks to our change in status and show them that we aren't something to fear," Harry explained.
"Should I even be going along?" Colossus questioned. "I might just aggravate the situation."
"If you show Kurt you are willing to help him even after the way he treated you it might help towards changing his mind," Jean suggested. "Try to remember your past friendship rather than what has happened between you two of late."
"I can try that. Though it will be difficult," Colossus admitted.
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"Harry, no offense but I don't really want to go running around in human waste," Bobby pointed out.
"You won't have to," Harry said as he gestured at the table and caused what looked like thin wrist-bands to appear on the table. "These bands will make it so any human waste will just slide off of you without actually touching you. There will be a thin energy barrier between you and the waste. You also won't smell it."
"Sweet," Bobby declared as he took up a wrist-band and slipped it on. "You always give us the best toys." "I wasn't eager to walk through human waste either," Harry admitted. "When do we leave?" Kitty questioned. "I anticipated the situation quite a ways in advance. Let's leave in an hour," Harry said. "That is all."
The meeting broke up.
The Sewers beneath Manhattan
"They know we are here. Here they come," Jean sent to her companions moments before the Morlocks set upon the X-Men.
One moment the X-Men had been moving through the sewers and the next they were engaged in battle. "Morlocks, now!" Sunder called as he leapt from the shadows intending to deliver a punch to Harry's jaw.
Sunder was a muscular man in his late thirties. Sunder's head was shaped a little oddly and he didn't quite look fully human. Sunder was the leader of the Morlocks. Harry used his left hand to deflect Sunder's punch to the right just enough to clear Harry's head. At the same time, Harry swept his right foot back and stepped out of the way. Sunder missed Harry and landed on the ground. Harry turned swiftly and kicked Sunder in the side with just enough force to send the Morlock leader into the wall of the chamber the group was fighting in. The room was filled with a lot of large machinery.
Harry turned to quickly scan the room and see if his teammates needed any assistance. The members of the X-Men all seemed to be doing quite well.
"We are not your enemy," Harry told Sunder as Sunder climbed back to a standing position slowly. "You sent a spy down here to find our weaknesses," Sunder accused. "Kurt wasn't sent as a spy," Harry said. "He came here because he thought he might fit in better with you." "That is exactly what an enemy would say," Sunder replied before charging Harry again.
Harry again tried to spin away from the charge at the last second but Sunder managed to correct. Sunder tried squeezing Harry thinking that the fight was over. Sunder was greatly surprised when Harry didn't seem fazed by the squeezing. Instead Harry broke Sunder's grip and faster than Sunder could follow reversed the hold until it was Harry holding Sunder.
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"Talking to you is useless," Harry muttered as the weaker Sunder struggled against the hold. "Disable them as quickly as you can without hurting them too much," Harry telepathically sent to his teammates.
Within the span of twenty seconds the much better trained X-Men had the Morlock group disabled on the ground. Harry noted that two of the Morlock members had proven quite formidable. A gray-green humanoid that went by the name Caliban could go through a transformation similar to the Hulk into a muscled monster the size of Hagrid's brother Grawp. A seemingly normal looking woman with an eye patch that went by the name Callisto was hiding a tentacle monster under her eye patch. Jean's telekinesis was definitely a match for the tentacle monster. A combination of efforts from Felicia, Rogue, and Ororo had taken care of Caliban. Harry secured all of the Morlocks with webbing.
"We are not your enemy," Jean announced. "If we wanted to harm you we could kill you right now."
Harry caused his webbing to disappear. The Morlocks regained their feet while looking at the X-Men wearily.
"Maybe you are telling the truth," Callisto said. "Why are you here then?"
"Kurt may not be an X-Men anymore but we don't want to see him hurt either," Scott replied. "A lot has changed on the surface."
"Perhaps he could tell us about it," Callisto replied. Sunder was noticeably silent. "Nightcrawler will be released and won't be harmed. If that was your only reason for being here then please leave."
"We just had one more reason," Harry said. "Your people don't need to live down here like this. We can help you quite a bit. However he may feel about the X-Men Kurt will at least tell you that much. Give Kurt this computer. It will never run out of power and will be able to access the internet from down here. Tell him to keep in touch. When you are ready to talk he can let us know."
Callisto accepted the laptop and nodded her agreement. The X-Men left. "It's a step in the right direction," Jean sent to her teammates. Everyone else agreed.
Jean's Room
Harry laid on his back and watched the two beauties each lying half on him sleeping. Jean was the first to wake first. She opened her eyes and found him gazing down at her. Jean and Ororo were both naked beneath the sheet draped over all three. Their heads had been lying on his shoulders.
"Good morning, lover," Jean sent while glancing at the still sleeping Ororo. "How long have you been awake?"
"A couple of hours," Harry admitted. "I enjoyed just watching the both of you sleeping. I may have also enjoyed a little looking at your dreams."
"Mmm...you make me feel good in my dreams as well as when I'm awake," Jean sent as she kissed him sensually while trying not to disturb Ororo. After returning her head to his shoulder she added, "Last night
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was intense. I don't think I've ever felt you so hungry for us."
Jean felt Ororo waking and immediately caught the other woman up on the conversation at the speed of thought.
"The way those gray pants Ororo was wearing yesterday hugged her butt and showed her shape combined with the belly shirt that showed her toned belly just got me hot," Harry explained while switching to verbal communication now that he sensed Ororo being awake. "Then there was you Jean. That yellow top emphasized your awesome cleavage while your jeans show just the right amount of skin."
As he spoke Harry used his abilities to convey the feelings he had felt yesterday for both women upon seeing the way they were dressed and had moved. "I love you," Ororo said before she leaned up and captured her own kiss.
"We're going to have to pick outfits like that out more often," Jean purred happily while running her fingertips over Harry's belly gently, playing with the hair there.
"Mhmmm," Ororo agreed. "This feels great. I don't want to leave this bed."
Ororo loved the feeling of being naked against Harry and there with one of her best friends. While Ororo and Jean hadn't engaged in any overly sexual acts with one another the night before it wasn't something Ororo would be opposed to in the future. She and Jean were going to live a long time if what Harry had told them was true. Ororo had no doubt it was. All the two women had really done last night had been to share a few kisses and been pressed together at various points.
"I don't think we have to. Not anytime soon," Jean replied, agreeing with the feelings of her friend. "Harry, would you clean our clothes so we can wear those outfits again?"
In response the clothing Jean and Ororo had discarded the night before in their haste to get naked floated in the air. The clothing glowed blue for a moment before folding itself neatly and settling on the nearby dresser.
"While we are naked let's have some more fun," Ororo suggested while her hand moved lower. "Ororo darling, you have brilliant ideas," Jean purred as her hand joined Ororo's hand. As Jean's head disappeared beneath the sheet Harry couldn't be any happier with life.
Jean entered the Institute's main living room to find Betsy curled up with a good book sitting next to another version of Harry. The pair looked rather cozy. Betsy had moved into the Institute not long ago. From what Harry had said he and Betsy were a serious item now. Other X-Men were also present including Rogue, Bobby, Bishop, Scott, Kitty, and more.
Betsy looked up as Jean and Ororo arrived with another version of their boyfriend. From the way both women were walking Betsy guessed they had experienced as fantastic a night with the Institute's most powerful occupant as she had. Betsy let her mind wander back to the previous night but was quickly distracted by a news report that had just come on. The report caught everyone's attention.
"It is pandemonium over here at city hall. I arrived here moments ago to find that the rumored-to-be recommissioned sentinels are on the scene. It's a war in the city streets as many mutants are injured and
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possibly dead," The Reporter announced. "X-Men, is everyone ready to go?" Harry asked.
Harry received confirmations from everyone. He activated the teleporter. Their uniforms were put on the X-Men as they transported.
"I love these new sentinel models," Wolverine called out as he leapt onto one of the robot's heads. "They provide just the right spots I need to jump up to the head. I approve."
"Yeah...but they are also more compact, are faster, and carry more weapons," Bishop pointed out as he deflected one of the robots from crushing him with his power.
"That I don't approve of," Logan admitted.
Bishop had one of the sentinels wrapped in his power and sent it hurtling at another sentinel. Jean caused the atoms in air molecules to vibrate so fast that fire blossomed. She made it burn plasma hot and sent the fire sweeping through two sentinels. It took a second but the sentinels burned.
"There sure are a lot of them," Jean said as she deflected an energy blast meant for her back by solidifying the air molecules into a shield.
"But it isn't anything we can't handle," Storm told her friend with a grin as she sent lightning coursing through a sentinel. She frowned when the sentinel only stopped moving for a moment. "It looks like one of the upgrades includes protection from lightning." Ororo switched focus and sent a localized hurricane force wind blast tearing through the sentinel's chest. "Hah...but what electricity can't do shear brute force can."
Ororo gasped and froze up as suddenly her mind was assaulted with a vision of horrible giant serpent-like monsters with jagged teeth.
"The Shadow King is coming for you Ororo Munroe. Soon, very soon – you will belong to me," A serpentine voice whispered into Ororo's mind.
Ororo had begun to drop out of the air as her mind was overwhelmed from the vision. But her bio-net AI corrected for her and she gently touched down. Harry landed next to her.
"Are you alright, love?" Harry asked Ororo. Harry had noticed Ororo flinching and setting down but not why.
"I just had some kind of vision. It had to do with my dreams about that play I have been writing," Ororo explained as she turned to face her boyfriend.
Harry quickly queried Ororo's bio-net AI and found that Ororo had experienced some type of telepathic event of a foreign nature. It hadn't really been an attack so much as a communication. But the nature of the event was so alien that Ororo's bio-net A.I. hadn't at first countered it. Once Ororo had suffered discomfort her A.I. had kicked in.
"You are ok for now. We can talk about it more later when we aren't in the head of battle. I'll stick close
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by," Harry said. Ororo nodded and rose back into the air. "Fight members of the Mutant Liberation Front," Furria shouted. "We don't need these X-Men to save us."
Furria was a furred mutant woman that looked like she was half dog. A sentinel managed to get his hands on Dazzler just then but she put her training to good use and blasted it apart with her power. Harry had been helping her understand the science behind her powers better and improve upon her channeling of her mutant abilities. There was a blast of light and sound as the sentinel she had been facing was ripped to shreds along with the two nearest sentinels.
"Thank you Harry," Allison thought to herself. A party-blast of that magnitude wouldn't have been something she could have managed before she had met the handsome superhero. And even when he had started helping her train such a feat would have left her drained and too weak to fight further. Now though she had much greater stamina. Dazzler shouted out, "That's how we party."
Dazzler moved onto other opponents with the deadly aid of her self-named party-blasts. The main force behind the MLF (Mutant Liberation Front) Stryfe stepped closer to Psylocke and Bishop.
"Don't let our hasty retreat fool you into believing we are ungrateful," Stryfe said. "We are not exactly on good terms with the government. We have been hounded by these new sentinels since our formation. Thank you for the chance to fight back."
Bishop was about to speak up and say something but Harry stopped Bishop with a telepathic message. Instead of what he had been about to say Bishop simply said, "We support peaceful mutant groups." Stryfe was frustrated because his powers should have instigated an argument with the X-Men. "Take us out of here, Zero," Stryfe told the pale skinned young mutant standing nearby.
Zero caused a portal to form and descend over Stryfe and several other MLF members nearby. Zero was a teleporter of sorts. Harry activated his own teleportation system and took the X-Men home to the Institute.