It was time for Susan to play damage control, trying not to make her breathing rather obvious. Thankfully her costume wouldn't be obvious with the dampness, because the clothing was made to allow dryness to happen with a few seconds. She didn't really know if there was any practical applications for that, but maybe people wanted to swimming with their clothes on, at least that's what she thought.
"Don't worry, Sue, we're about ready right now," Kara said with a bright smile on her face, finding her panties and putting them back on. She smiled, and left the rather pleased pop star laying on the bench.
Susan could see the look of pleasure dancing through her eyes and she was instantly jealous, wishing that it was her in that position but she guessed that she would have to settle for being an invisible voyeur right now.
"I'm ready, I'm ready, are you?" Susan asked, managing to somehow get back through the doorway without opening even more than she did. She was going to take a deep breath but to be honest, she wasn't out of the woods yet.
Kara smiled once again and Kal looked at her. The blonde Kryptonian stared at him and Kal shook his head as she mouthed "wait, let her choke on it for a little bit."
With that being said, Kal picked up the rather ravished pop star and scooped her up into his arms, and tucked her back into bed.
"You know when I recover from this, I'm going to want an encore," she told her, a smoldering gaze locked onto his eyes and Kal smiled, sprinting her back into the next room.
"If you want an encore, that's what you'll get," Kal told her and he made sure that Allison was down on the bed.
"Sue?" Crystal asked and the blonde turned around, nearly started. "Are they ready…"
"They'll be coming in five minutes," Susan said once again, managing to keep a straight face despite all that she saw. It was all of the self control that she could muster up that she didn't just jump in there and jump them right away.
Wanted to, she really, really wanted to, she really, really wanted to but she managed to hold herself back once again.
"Hi, Sue," Kal said and she nearly jumped up and she practically jumped into his arms, his strong arms catching her.
Crystal looked at them, with a smile on her face once again.
'Subtle,' she thought, shaking her head once again.
"So, Crystal, how are you doing?" Kal asked her, acting like nothing out of the ordinary was wrong or how Susan was using her powers for far more seedier things than she should have. He could see the blonde haired vixen's eyes flushed over in absolute pleasure from what happened.
"Fine….um, is Kara coming out there?" Crystal asked and they heard Kara's voice from the other end of the door.
"Just a minute, I want to make sure that she's fine after the terrible ordeal she went through," Kara called from the other end of the room.
They waited, but they didn't have to wait long, with the blonde Kryptonian making her way from the room, her arms crossed against her chest and she looked ready for business.
"So, I think that the four of us have a lot to do still tonight…..providing there aren't any other alien invasions or television directors that are trying to transport us halfway across the universe," Kara said and Crystal and Susan exchanged a nervous look. "Yeah, pretty high chance of that happening, isn't it?"
"Based on the past, yes, it's a high chance that happens, way too high actually," Crystal said with a lengthy sigh, brushing her hand towards her hair. "My sister won't believe this…"
"Your sister is the Queen of the Inhumanes, isn't she?" Clark asked and she nodded.
"Yes, and it's a role that I think that she embraces whole heartedly…..even though if the marriage was a political affair waiting to happen, but he takes care of her and makes sure that she gets the best, and she respects him and speaks for him, because he can't speak for himself," Crystal said.
Kara, master of tact that she was, asked the obvious question. "Why ever can't he speak for himself?"
Kal looked at Kara but Crystal shook her head.
"It's okay, it's not really public knowledge, well not unless you follow various maneuverings of the royal family," Crystal said with a smile on her face but she found herself looking at Kal a bit too much and she reigned herself in once again. "Anyway, Black Bolt can't speak, because the last time he opened his mouth….it killed a bunch of people and he deafens people if he speaks at a whisper…..or so the legend goes. That's what my sister told me, she managed to forge a telepathic link with him."
"Fascinating," Kal said and he meant that quite earnestly, with Crystal giving him a bright smile and leaning in towards him.
"Maybe the four of us should catch some dinner, and talk more about it."
Kara gave a knowing smile and she and Kal agreed that was most agreeable.
It was time to build up even more anticipation in their minds, leading to the big moment.
Kal was on the Astral Plane, with help with Emma and Jean, and he saw a complete reconstruction of the Fortress, complete with Lara.
Lara looked at Kal, frowning deeply. "So do you want a complete recap of the good news and the bad news?"
"Yes, I want the good news first," Kal said to her and Lara smiled at her son.
"The gateway is complete, the coordinates or properly set, and we're pretty sure that we can bring you home with no problem," Lara said but Alura jumped in, chiming in.
"Except there's this one big problem," Alura said once again and Lara nodded in agreement.
"Yes, accept that there's this one really big problem," Lara agreed, folding her arms together and letting Kal have the information, at least as she had it. "And it's a pretty big complication….."
"We don't leave us in suspense then," Kara said, she wanted to know what could be so difficult where they could not travel back and forth to their home dimension with each other. That being said, the blonde shifted her arms and legs together, when her mother and aunt glared at her.
'Boy, isn't she the impatient one?' Karen asked.
'Weren't you at that age?' Lois chimed in.
'Weren't you at any age?' Chloe asked Lois and Lois got all huffy, crossing her arms with a nice little pout once again.
'Okay ladies, behave yourself, don't make me get out the whips and the chains,' Tess said dryly, but she was half hoping for that, because she had nothing else better to do.
'By all means, continue then,' Kara said and Tess smiled.
'You're only safe because you're on the other end of an inter-dimensional gateway, I'd get you too, if you were here,' Tess commented with a smile on her face.
'Oh promises, promises,' Kara said once again, shaking her head and smirking in amusement.
'You just wait, there will be some promises that will be fulfilled, you should know that I always keep my promises, honey,' Tess remarked with a smile on her face.
'You said that there was a problem,' Kal said, averting things back to the fact at hand.
Lara sighed once again. "Yes, the problem is this, there is some kind of cosmic storm that was kicking up."
"Oh, Reed Richards discovered the same thing, a cosmic storm that is happening at the same time, over two different universes…"
"Or more, it could be into the dozens, we don't have sufficient data, although our best people are working at it," Alura said and by their best people, Tess and Karen were at the top of the list, and obviously Helena had a lot of resources to find out certain things.
"Well, I know that you'll find out something," Clark said, he was going to remain confident that they would, because that's what they did.
"We will, believe me, we will," Lara answered, she was taking it as a personal insult that she wasn't able to find anything out to be honest. "The good news….and yes there's more good news as this shouldn't be anything that causes interdimensional rifts."
"Well, that's handy," Emma said once again.
'Providing, of course that some idiot doesn't start randomly opening up portals, without any care to the long term consequences that they cause,' Tess chimed in.
'Is it just me, or are you also not filled with sunshine and fuzziness at the thought of that?' Chloe asked once again and Kal smiled, even though it seemed a little bit forced once again.
"It's not you, trust me, it's not you," Kal said and he heard the chiming in on agreement.
"It will pass, won't it?" Jean asked once again and Kara turned over her with a smile. "Maybe I can…"
'You can try, but I wouldn't recommend it,' the Phoenix said, cutting that particular plan off at the knees before she could even try and voice it. Jean's mouth closed shut immediately.
"It will pass," Kara agreed once again and she could tell that Jean was about ready to have an eternal debate of some sort with herself. Something that seemed a little bit more insane than it really was to be honest. "But it could get really worse before it gets better…..and anyone who is doing space travel…well hopefully they're smart enough not even to try."
"On the bright side, it will cut off any alien invasion plans that might be happening," Jean said, trying to look for a silver lining on the cloud.
"Thankfully, so what's been going on at home?'
'Nothing that the League can't handle,' Diana said once again and she racked her brain for any oddities but found nothing. 'You know what, things have gotten very quiet, so you don't have to worry.'
Kal wasn't sure if things being quiet was going to cause him to worry slightly more or very much less. That being said, he would figure that out when the time came and not a second before that.
Nothing that the League couldn't handle, that was very good, he thought. Perhaps he didn't have much if anything else to worry about.
'So what's been happening on your end?'
Kara smiled and Kal struggled to keep a straight face. 'Oh boy, we really got a story to tell you then.'
"I can't believe that….you fought him, you dealt with him….the one and only Deadpool…..I mean, he won't ever shut up, can't you believe that?" Kitty asked and Rogue turned towards her, with Ororo, Betsy, and Jean looking fairly amused.
"Someone who talks too much and trips over their words, imagine that," Rogue said dryly and Kitty nodded up and down feverishly.
"Yeah, I know, I mean totally….HEY!" she snapped, realizing what Rogue was implying. The mutant reached forward and patted Kitty on the head with a gloved hand. "I am not that bad."
"Of course you're not, Kitty, you just get fairly excited when you have something that you're passionate about," Ororo told her and Kitty gave a rather triumphant smile or what she thought was a triumphant smile, but it faded from her face once again.
"So, you almost had the gateway working," Kitty said, trying not to trip over her words.
"Almost, actually it would have worked, if it wasn't for that cosmic storm that is brewing," Jean said once again. "You know the last time something like this happened….wasn't it that eater of worlds there…"
"Galatus?" Kitty asked suddenly. "Yeah, I mean, I know that a guy has to eat, but you really can't eat Earth, I mean, you don't know where it's been."
Kitty pulled a face and shook her head, with Kal giving her a smile once again and wrapping his arm around her.
"Some might agree with you Kitty, some might agree with you," Kal told her once again, seeing the intensity that flashed through the brunette's eyes, which always happened when she was passionate about something.
"But, I'm sure that you could take Galactus if he shows up, I mean, you're Superman," Kitty said once again.
"You know, we can always put that mouth to a better use," Kara said, once again placing her hand on Kitty's thigh once again and the brunette mutant shivered because of Kara's heated touch all over her. "Kind of like we did the last time."
"Oh what was this?" Jean asked and Rogue once again grew flushed.
"Oh come on, it's not like you don't know," Rogue said and she could almost sense that Jean was probing the pleasure centers of her mind and that was driving her kind of nuts to be honest and it wasn't being driven nuts in a good way, she could say that.
"No, I don't know, do you think that you could tell me, perhaps describe things for me."
"Now, Jean, I'm sure that they're very embarrassed, and I'm sure that they learned their lesson," Ororo said once again and she could feel Kara's hand on her thigh as well, slowly easing up on her.
She closed her eyes, with Kara sandwiched between both Ororo and Kitty on the table once again.
"So, Emma is supposed to come by soon, isn't she?" Betsy asked and Jean smiled once again, nodding her head.
"Yes, she wants to discuss a few matters, and don't you have something to discuss with Kal?" Jean asked him and Jean nudged her.
Betsy grew kind of flushed, with Jean acting like the devil dancing on her shoulder, urging her to some kind of mischief. The British bombshell looked at Kal once again.
"Can I have a word with you, privately….Kal?" she asked suddenly and Kal nodded once again, with Betsy grabbing him by the arm.
She could tell that she felt left out and Kal though that he would have to correct that all too soon, it didn't seem fair that he made his way around the other various mutants, in the X-Men and in the Hellfire Club and mixed this particularly gorgeous one.
"I don't think that I have to explain to you what I want," Betsy said with a lustful purr, and a purple knife appeared, which sliced Kal's shirt away from him.
That being said, Kal didn't really need a direct diagram to know what she wanted and what she was going to take.
The bombshell kissed him heatedly once again, a gesture which he returned, and his hands roamed over her body. She managed to lock onto his mind, but she couldn't quite read it.
'Guess I'm going to do have to do this the old fashioned way,' Betsy thought once again and she shook her head, but that was the fun of it.
Jan folded her arms together, checking and double checking the new and approved costume. She made it out of the best materials, ones that were both comfortable, practical, and stylish…okay that was three things, not two but super heroines had to look their best.
"You're really obsessing over this, aren't you, it looks fine," Carol said once again and Natasha sat in the background, shaking her head.
"Yes, I'm sure that she would look good even if she was naked," Natasha said but she paused. Actually she knew that from experience that Superwoman would look very good if she was naked.
"Well duh, that much is obvious but we've got to make sure this costume is exactly right," Jan said once again.
"You gave her one already, she liked it….."
"I know she liked it, but I made some modifications on it," Jan said once again and she smiled, hearing a knock on the door.
"I'm not ready, stall her," Jan said and Natasha looked forward and cleared her throat.
"Janet's ready for your costume, you can come in now," Natasha said once again and Jan opened her mouth and closed it, looking fairly mortified that Natasha would have said such a thing.
Carol on the other hand was extremely amused and it was all that she could do not to bust a rib while laughing.
Kara walked inside, and she could see the costume that Jan was holding out. The blonde looked things over, the skirt was short but not too short, the boots looked rather nice, the top would have fit to her skin and in fact would have showed enough skin to allow the further absorbation of yellow sunlight onto her body.
"Jan?" Kara asked and Jan looked up, nearly looking like she was going to pass out.
"Mmm."
Kara was having a way too much fun drawing out anticipation for what she was going to say and Carol and Natasha looked both amused.
'You're going to lead the poor girl to a panic attack, she's choking for it already,' Emma thought once again and Karen laughed from afar once again. 'I don't suppose you corrupted her just a little bit….'
'Well given that you gave her expert training onto how to train her pets, who did the corruption?' Karen asked, still having the strongest connection to this universe because technically she was another version of a person from this universe.
"I just have one thing to say," Kara said once again and Jan blinked. "Perfect."
"I know….I should have done better….wait what?" Jan asked and Carol could not hold back her laughter any more, she broke out into laughter.
Kara walked over behind her and placed her hands onto Jan's shoulder's once again. She gave a surprised squeak once again and Natasha flashed a knowing smile.
She would have to offer her assistance if Kara wanted to lure either of these two into her and Kal's bedroom, although that wouldn't take that much.
"It's pretty good, perfect, you did an excellent job, you should be proud of yourself," Kara said with a smile and Jan nodded wordlessly.
"Yeah…..I told her that, but she wouldn't listen to me," Carol said once again and Jan looked into the mirror with a long sigh escaping her lips.
"You aren't just saying that, are you?" Jan asked and Kara shook her head, a smile going over her face.
"No, I'm just saying that, everything is perfect, in fact this costume will help me kick ass better, along with looking good doing it," Kara said with a smile on her face. "But, I'm sure that you'd like to see me model the costume, to see how good it looks on me."
Jan's mind went wild with the thought.
"Oh, I'm sure that it would be practical," Natasha said and Carol smiled.
"You know, to see if it actually fits," Carol agreed with a smirk on her face and she could see Jan shake her head.
Kara slowly pulled off her clothes, first removing her shirt and then she removed her pair of jeans once again. She wore a lacy blue pair of bra and panties once again and everyone took a chance to admire her amazing body once again.
She slipped on the new top, the black material clung lovingly to her chest, the silver "S" standing out in the greatest prominence to everything else, as she folded her arms over her chest. It showed off her nice toned stomach rather well as well. She slowly but sensually slicked the black skirt over her legs. Then she pulled on the thigh high black boots, one after another.
"I'd have to say that she looks good, wouldn't you?" Natasha asked calmly, elbowing Jan and that brought her back to reality, at least somewhat.
Jan took a couple of seconds to allow her brain to reboot before she smiled at Kara. "You look gorgeous."
"I know I do, and thanks for the compliment," Kara said with a smile and she flew out of the window suddenly, and went halfway across the town.
"She can be a little show off sometimes," Natasha said with a smile but she was watching her never the less.
"Well, someone like that, you can't help but showing off what you have," Carol offered and there was pretty much no argument to those points that they could give.
Kara returned once again, setting on the ground.
"I have a few alternate attires….if you have time and would like to model them, I mean, you got to have options, right?" Jan asked and Kara smiled.
"Of course, of course, you got to have these choices, because you never know when a certain day might call for a different costume," Kara said with a smile. "But I'm sure that you have something amazing cooked up, but then, why wouldn't you be? The proper combination of brains and beauty and all that."
Jan was trying very hard not to seem too pleased with herself because it was kind of hard to do so. That being said, Kara had a bit to kill before she had to head out to the Daily Bugle.
"Superman is making waves all over the city," Betty told Clark once again with a smile across her face, and a blonde named Gwen Stacy and a redhead named Mary Jane Watson was standing around, watching.
"Oh, yes, he's making waves alright, and likely leaving his mark in many of girl's panties," Mary Jane whispered and Gwen looked at her, shaking her head. "Don't say that you haven't said it."
Gwen was about ready to offer a very cutting retort, but the charming voice of the one and only J. Jonah Jameson was bellowing once again.
"Why isn't everyone covering this, some nutjob is robbing a bunch of banks, and he's calling himself, the Spot!"
"The Spot?" Betty asked, practically mouthing that sentence but she couldn't help but laugh at that name.
"The super villain names just seem to be getting even more lame with each passing year," Kara said, showing up at Kal's shoulder once again.
"Someone like that, he must be one of Spider-Girl's!" Jameson bellowed from his office and Gwen and Mary Jane exchanged one of those looks.
"Well, if Spider-Girl shows up, then I better get pictures, pictures of Spider-Girl," Mary Jane said in a chipper voice once again.
"WATSON!" Jameson bellowed at the top of his lungs once again and Mary Jane smiled and waited for it. "I want you to go out there, and get me pictures, pictures of Spider-Girl, good ones, the best ones, the ones that knock your socks off and make you want even more, the type of pictures that make people want to buy newpapers until they have an entire stack of it to the ceiling that's going to end up crushing you to death."
"In other words, he wants some pretty good photos," Betty translated once again and Kara shook her head.
"The Spot?" Kara whispered and Kal nodded.
"The Spot," Kal confirmed and Kara blinked.
"No, seriously, the Spot," Kara said once again, as Mary Jane and Gwen both left at the same exact time, leaving Jameson to rant and rave about something or other.
Given that he was on those big Jumbo Trons in the middle of New York, the man had a lot to rant and rave about for sure.
"Yes, Kara, the Spot….look we're not going to go back and forth about this all day, are we?" Kal asked and Kara shook her head.
"In the super villain lottery, he came up pretty short namewise, didn't he?" Kara asked and Kal wasn't about to argue with that point.
Kal could hear his phone go off, and he wondered which of the girls needed him right now.
Clark Kent, Kal-El, Superman, answered the phone, and he was caught off guard, realizing that he got a text message from Susan Storm.
Kara smiled when she saw that, but she couldn't really see what it said. The blonde tried to indulge herself in a tiny bit of curiosity.
"She wants us to meet her, at this address, the both of us," Kal commented to Kara, and the blonde had a grin on her face a mile wide.
"Well, we better not leave the girl hanging," Kara told her and she turned to Betty. "It was nice seeing you again Betty, maybe the three of us should get together sometime?"
Betty, having a very creative mind, interpreted that statement exactly how Kara wanted her to interpret it. And she had an involuntary full body shudder to go along with those thoughts.
The two of them were gone, then again, they were always on the go. As a reporter, she was able to piece together who they really were but she didn't say anything.
Besides who would think that mild mannered bumbling Clark Kent was Superman? Might be slightly easier to piece together that Kara was Supergirl, er Superwoman but Clark Kent as Superman required a certain leap in logic that would get her laughed at.
That being said, Betty nipped to the side to get a cup of coffee, and maybe she would investigate this Spot mess.
To Be Continued on September 21st, 2014.