Kal-El of Krypton knew power, he understood power, and what he stood before here was the personification of all things that were power. Even the Last Son of Krypton felt a rush of energy as he stood before Jean Grey, the avatar of the Phoenix Force.
"Do not deny me, I'm sure you've been thinking about this moment for a very long time," Jean whispered, excited at the prospect as much herself. Both the Phoenix and Jean Grey, they were excited.
"Yes, the thought did cross my mind more than once, but you see I'm not denying it, and anything you want, I will not deny you," Kal said, placing his hand on Jean's hair. There was no mistaking about it, powers or not, she was a pretty sexy woman.
With the powers, she was the definition of white hot, pun completely intended. The redhead's smoldering gaze looked over every inch of Kal's body and her tongue trailed over the edge of her lips. The look that she was giving him, that was a look that would cause most men to become hard and this man of steel was no exception.
"For thousands of years, the Phoenix Force has jumped from avatar to avatar, and some of those avatars have been on your native Krypton," Jean continued with a smoldering smolder smile on her face and she traced the crest on Kal's shirt, the silver letter "S". "Of course, there was one problem, no matter how often we tried throughout the multiverse, we could not find someone who could experience our gifts in all of their glory, all of our splender. Thus the holders of the Phoenix Force burned out."
"That's a shame….."
"But each brought their own contributions to the table and caused the Phoenix Force to grow in knowledge," Jean whispered and she absent mindedly slipped Kal's jacket off of his shoulders, revealing his muscles. They just were not for show either, despite his powers, he really worked out to get the results that he wanted. "Knowledge is power and power will bring us to this point now, Kal-El of Krypton."
"Yes, I seek…"
"The one thing that the Phoenix Force has never felt, outside of the past memories of some of its holders, is true intimate despite," she whispered, rubbing Kal's neck now from behind. "You see, there have been those who have been with the holders of the Phoenix Force. Unfortunately they didn't get too far before they suffered the consequences."
"What….."
"Power is not something that many can sustain, the Climax would have destroyed them, but no one made it that far," Jean said, and Kal's shirt was completely of this body. "You and I are very much alike."
"Gods wrapped in mortal flesh," Kal said to her and Jean smiled.
"Excellent, this is much easier if you accept your power."
Jean Grey, the Phoenix, both two parts of the same package, were extremely pleased with the young man ahead of them.
Kal did have a question and he could not resist it. "Where are we?"
"I do not wish to burn out sentient life in a whole by making love to you in the initial station of bonding, because it can be intense," Jean told him. "We are inside the White-Hot Room, the one place in the universe that can sustain this initial bonding process."
"Fascinating….."
"The energies of the universe and the energies of the Phoenix Force reside here, we can make this place anything that we want to make it," Jean whispered as she wrapped her arms tightly around Kal's waist and pulled him in. She worked the buckle of his pants down, a smoldering smile on her face as she looked up at him. "And what I want to make of this place is…..the place where we commence our union, and join together. Where Jean Grey can accept the Phoenix Force without fear of being burned out."
"So, this is just some kind of kinky threesome, right?" Kal asked and Jean smiled. "Trust me, I don't have any problem."
"Yes, I see you have no problems with taboo of any sort, as you should not, for it is a useless human concept that has no bearings on an overly powerful being such as yourself," Jean whispered, stroking his abdomen area and then reaching down a bit lower. "And you are well gifted to pleasure many women and they will in turn give you much pleasure. You will change the world Kal-El but together, we can change the universe."
Jean dropped to her knees, flames surrounding her robes which shredded in an erotic action. Every single curve of her athletic body was seen and that got Kal even harder. Her green eyes popped up at him as she was down on her knees, about ready to service him.
SHIELD arrived, as predicted. Magneto gritted his teeth as he saw the members of SHIELD make their way down to the ground. Seconds had passed from his perspective and the perspective of those who were around them.
He lifted his hand but much to his agitation, anti-magnetic shields prevented him from locking completely on the ship. Fury was scarily prepared, he had to think of everything.
"Wanda, find me away out of here," Magneto whispered to his daughter and Wanda stood up, blinking a couple of times. Swallowing hard, she prepared to do just that with a steady and calm statement.
"Yes father."
Wanda locked onto one of the ships and plowed it with the full force of one of her hex bolts. It altered all probability and there was a low probability that the SHIELD ship was about ready to crash down to the ground.
The woman blinked as the ship was opened.
"Decoy," Pyro whispered, and sure enough, the SHIELD agents were not stupid enough to land in the middle of a mutant war zone.
"Figured as much," Pietro whispered, whipping his head around and the X-Men stood, ready to fight. "I'm surprise you X-Geeks are sticking around, given how you just got your asses handed to you….."
"The X-Men never run from a fight," Cyclops said boldly and there was a few that was questioning his sanity.
Xavier knew that Nick Fury was going to show up and sure enough, the Director of SHIELD made his way there.
"Commander Fury….."
"Charles Xavier, I should have known that you were in the middle of this entire mess," Fury whispered and there was a second where he paused and amended his statement. "Actually there was no should have know, I did know. One of your Omega-level mutants threw a temper tantrum and knocked satellites off of course."
"It's far deeper than that…"
"But I'm essentially right," Fury cut in and Xavier could not deny that fact. He did hate it fairly often when Fury had a point.
The Brotherhood made their retreat in the confusion and Fury knew that there would be a day where there would be a reckoning with Magneto and his group.
"Fury, you should know by now that things are never what they seem," Selene said, staring down the Agent of SHIELD.
"Well, Selene….the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club…"
"And I may remind you that you are on a strip of land that is currently owned by the kingdom of Nova-Roma," Amara said, staring down Fury with heated intentions rolling through her eyes. "Legally speaking, you're thumbing your nose at jurisdiction for we're not underneath your watchful eye or the watchful eye of SHIELD."
"Just tracking a threat that could cripple countries that are under the watchful threat of SHIELD, princess," Fury said and Amara thought about correctly Fury about her title. Then it struck her, Fury knew already, he was just being condescending on purpose. The usual hard ass Nick Fury that everyone knew and loved.
"It's Jean Grey….."
"I thought you had the full dangerous extent of her powers under wraps, that's what you assured me, so I didn't put her in the Vault for her own protection," Fury said and Ororo stepped forward.
"You can't just imprison…"
"Cosmic abilities that could reshape reality in the hands of a hormonal teenage girl, what would you want me to do?" Fury asked and he looked at them. "It would be far less humane than what some people in the government want to do with you. They want to build giant death machines for the express purpose of hunting down mutants. And they don't give a fuck about whether you're brought in dead or alive."
"Yes, I'm aware of this," Xavier said, he had made many trips of Washington to debate Robert Kelly in recent months but sadly, his words had fallen on deaf ears. Kelly's fear mongering was touching the right buttons. Given that mutants were branded as terrorists by some in the government, people were hesitate to jump to their defenses, for they would be aiding and abetting a terrorist.
"You're all coming in with SHIELD for questioning," Fury said, deciding to regain some sort of control with this situation.
"You may take the X-Men and leave," Selene told Fury. "Or you can try and take me and my group and not leave. It's your choice Fury."
"You have some nerve….."
"You do not want to declare an act of war against Nova-Roma," Amara said and she stared Fury down with a fiery gaze in her eyes. There was an undercurrent of "go ahead, try me" etched in her eyes and Fury didn't have a chance to respond.
There was a fiery explosion that brought Jean and Kal-El back down to Earth.
"So, it's you," Fury whispered, looking at the young man for the Fury.
"My name is Kal-El, I'm the king of Nova-Roma, and you're trespassing on my land," Kal said, staring Fury down.
"Clear out," Fury said but he stopped. "I'll be watching you."
"Well that's something that we have in common," Kal said and the stare down was so intense that everyone watching thought that fires were going to be set for a few seconds.
Fury left with his men, with one more look of disdain directed towards them.
"Congratulations, you're now number one on Fury's shit list," Emma concluded dryly and Kara smiled.
"Good," Kara said, she had her fill of politicians back on Krypton and for the most part, they didn't seem to be too different. "So, what happened?"
SHIELD cleared off, very reluctantly, but things were just about to get juicy. The shocking return of Jean Grey and the revelations that were given was something that might have thrown the entire balance of the war off. Xavier knew that if he was connected to the Hellfire Club and came back with Jean, this might complicate things.
Naturally, the Hellfire Club played a deeper game. The chess motif was completely and utterly accurate as far as they all were concerned.
"Jean, you're….."
"I'm together once again," Jean said, with a smile answering Ororo's voice. She wanted to be reassuring. She put her arm around Kal's waist and he did likewise. "The Phoenix Force could have destroyed me…..even more so than it was locked away."
"I know that you're upset…."
"I was upset, I'm done being upset, because I realized what I gained," Jean told Xavier and this was a girl who had powers who could destroy everyone in her path just like that. The fact that she was completely docile proved to be a good thing, not a bad thing.
"I'm glad that you're in sound mind…."
"Yes, I'm in sound mind, I'm better together than I'll ever be," Jean said with a smile and she looked at Kal. "Thanks to him."
"Yes….."
"The Hellfire Club is all you've known," Xavier muttered and there was a second where he paused. "You must understand….."
"Shaw was the problem, his cohorts were the problem, but you don't see him around any more, now do you?" Selene asked in a crisp voice and that was a very true point. "The X-Men might have the best intentions in mind but the best intentions might not work out for the best. And remember, passive indifference can be more dangerous than an attack."
"We don't have to go down this road," Xavier said to her.
"What road, Charles?" Selene asked and Xavier should be thankful that she did not murder him just for the hell of it. Thankfully she was feeling in a charitable mood of acquiring such a powerful asset for the Club. "There's a war that's about to happen but if you think it's just because mutants and humans, you're not thinking of a bigger picture."
"What bigger picture am I not thinking of?"
Kal was the one who jumped in with a few words of his own. "The one that you keep ignoring because of your tunnel vision, Charles. I've come here and there is a larger universe out here."
"The only reason why Earth hasn't been targeted by alien races as it's fairly new," Kara said, that was the reason why Zod came here in the first place. It was a place where he did not get detected for his war crimes and there were many. "Mutants and humans aren't the problem."
"Just more of a reason why we should stand together," Beast said, trying to keep his voice even tempered.
"You should come with us….." Cyclops said but Kal jumped in, speaking over him.
"Why should I leave my home, a kingdom that I rule?" Kal asked to him. "The dream of Charles Xavier is one that I might share, in the most crude and primitive sense. But the methods that he'll use, I don't agree with that. Good idea in theory, not so good in practice."
"I know you might not agree with everything that I do but…"
"I know what you're thinking, and we'll always be apart on how we go about what we want," Kal said, looking at Xavier.
Xavier tried to get a hunch of what he was thinking but his mind was something that could not be read by any psychic on Earth.
"And that would be a folly as well, I know you like to get inside of people's heads, but unless you know the language, you won't be able to process my thoughts," Kal said and Emma added.
"Even then, there would be difficulty dephiring his thoughts."
"I guess that means we have to part ways," Betsy said, happy that they were not in the midst of a fight because given these two super powered aliens they stood before were rather powerful. Plus, she had a feeling that while the X-Men could put up a fight, they were dealing with.
"I'm leaving, with them, you know that," Jean said and Xavier decided that this was a point to pick his battles wisely. Scott looked like he was going to open his mouth to protest but Xavier looked back at him.
Like an obedient solider, Scott fell back into line.
'Guess some of us are leaders and others are followers just masquerading,' Kal thought to them.
"If you change your mind, you know where the X-Men are, and you know that we will never shun you," Xavier said, not liking this but knowing that logically there was no way to stop Jean.
"Yes, and I'll be seeing you around again, I expect," Jean said, with a knowing smile towards Betsy and Ororo.
Emma and Selene's triumph was something that could not be hidden. It would have been more frustrating if they rubbed it in their faces.
Awe filled the eyes of Jean Grey. Granted she saw the island through Kal's memories when they bonded but seeing things through the memories and seeing things in the flesh, they were two different things entirely.
"Shall I assume that your look of stunned shock means that you approve of your new home," Amara said, she could not believe that the most powerful force in the universe had been rendered speechless. Jean's mouth hung open and Amara smiled.
"Beautiful….."
"Fit for a queen, which all of my girls are," Kal said, walking over towards Jean. He gave Amara a quick kiss and she scurried up to the castle, she had work to do. "It must not have been easy leaving the X-Men like that."
"Well it wasn't but at the same time it was," she said, laughing. She grew suddenly serious and decided to say it. "That really doesn't make much sense, does it?"
Kal pulled her into a tight embrace, her body pressing against his muscular chest. "Jean, it makes more sense thank you think it does."
She smiled and stole a kiss. "Good, I'm glad."
"And if you're glad, than I'm happy," Kal said, running his hands over Jean's hair. Her crimson red locks fit nicely in his hand as he kept stroking her hair. The two of them looked and felt content in each other's embrace.
Kara dropped down beside Kal and the power of Jean, well it excited her just as much as it did Kal. Then again, she appreciated such things and the legend of the Phoenix Force was something that was prominent even on Krypton.
"There was an aircraft outside of the island," Kara informed Kal and Kal withdrew with Jean.
"I need to go, I'll make it up to you later," Kal told her and Jean smiled, watching his retreating back leave her.
"I know you will," Jean agreed, watching Kal make his way off. That left her alone with Kara. "So you and Kal are the last of your kind….well with Lara as well."
"Yes," Kara said, brushing her hair from her face and sitting down next to Jean. "You know, it does seem like it would be depressing to be among the last of our kind but it isn't that bad. It could be much worse."
"At least you three have each other," Jean said, knowing where Kara was coming from and appreciating it with a smile on her face.
"There is that, yes," Kara agreed, feeling the power of the Phoenix up this close was a thrill that she never thought that she had. "Plus, Krypton didn't live due to the fact of how many survivors there were. I mean, Kandor was rebuilt about seven times, until the time where it disappeared. Kal, Lara, and I…..we're going to bring great change to Earth."
"I can see it," Jean said, she could not deny the excitement that she said. "What do you think of the Hellfire Club?"
"Kal is the Hellfire Club, the Black King, Selene and Emma are his Black and White Queens," Kara said honestly. "There are a lot of times where the club got a bad rap in the past but that was during the old management. I haven't been here for long, maybe about a month or so since I came out of the pod."
"So, you don't know….."
"Earth was something that was studied from afar on Krypton," Kara explained. "We got Earth television, and it was kind of amusing how much they got wrong about aliens and their races."
Kara suddenly broke out into an insane fit of giggles and Jean looked at her.
"Sorry, I didn't think of this earlier. But there was a program that I saw, where there was a character on it, he looked like Charles Xavier. Same tone, same mannerisms, anything. They could have been twins, it was hilarious when I met him today."
Jean looked at her with a smile.
"So everything you know about Earth is through what you've watched on television?"
Kara looked sheepish. "Well for a while, although I'm learning very quickly that there was a lot on television that was dramatized. But Krypton and Earth wasn't too different, and I don't mean the looks either. It's just that we were more advanced than Earth was technology wise."
"Krypton was a young planet once too," Jean said and Kara nodded.
"Yeah," Kara said, feeling the warm sea breeze. It was quite liberating. "I think that you'll fit in nicely with the group."
"Kal fit me in quite nicely," Jean said and she blinked. "I'm surprised…..you know females normally kill each other over shoes…"
"So that's accurate?" Kara asked and Jean nodded. "You mean the Great Shoe Genocide of 1989 is real?"
"What….maybe, I don't know," Jean said but she then realized that Kara was having her on. "But I'm surprised that Kal seems to be building a harem…"
"Collective," Kara said without skipping a beat. "Kryptonian royalty, calling a group of women under Kryptonian royalty a harem is…..well it's just not done. I'll explain it you to later."
The two girls wondered where Kal went off to but they suspected that they would find out all too soon.
Carol Danvers could see him close by, she wanted to see how close she could get without detection.
'Well that might be a bit too close,' Carol said, as she saw the flying young man out in front of him. The fact that he took out SHIELD's high tech planes with just a simple gesture made Carol a bit nervous about what he could be capable of. The blonde made sure her jaw was set firmly as she stared him down.
"Land the plane," Kal told her and that was not a request.
Carol figured that she would have a better chance getting information by talking him, then attacking him. She landed the plane where he pointed it out. It was obvious that he could have blown her out of the sky.
Kal watched, he figured that there were going to be people roaming around.
"First you're going to tell me where you found the hole in the grid so we can close it and secondly, you're going to tell me what you're doing here," Kal said and Carol looked at him, she could feel a burst of agitation going through her. "You're not one of SHIELD."
"I've worked with SHIELD but no, I'm not SHIELD," Carol said, she was grateful that he was not about ready to attack her. Perhaps she could get out of here with her sanity intact. "I work with SWORD….it's an organization…"
"That studies extra-terrestrial life," Kal said to her. "Humans for the most part can be very territorial. That's a good thing, if you have the teeth."
The implication of what he said could be heard.
"The problem is that you don't have teeth, do you? You have weapons, but they might be able to put down internal invasions, a full fleet invasion, you have no idea what to do."
Carol agreed, that was a problem but they hoped that Earth would be able to be ready before the time that they were notice. The exploration of the Fantastic Four might have made them a bit more noticeable for some of the more wicked alien races.
"Coming to an island that contains someone with weapons that could take down even the strongest government organizations on Earth, really isn't smart, Miss….."
"Danvers….Carol Danvers," she said but her gaze was at Kal with intensity. She did not back down. She suspected that she could more and hold her own in a fight against him. But that would cause collateral damage that she did not want.
"Well Miss Danvers," Kal whispered to her. "Or may I call you Carol?"
There was no answer other than the obvious one.
"Were you….."
"Threatening you, well not entirely, I wasn't threatening you," Kal said to her. That statement was left hanging. "Merely warning you that a friendly visit can be mistaken for an attack. I know Fury isn't going to take what I told him laying down for long and….we got to be ready for anyone. Magneto and his brotherhood has us in the crosshairs."
"I know about that," Carol said, the human-mutant thing was reaching a fever pitch. She looked at this engaging young man and wondered if she should make the drastic decision that she was about to make.
"You can try and bring me in," Kal said, it was almost like he was hoping for a challenge.
"You and I both know that it wouldn't be a good idea," Carol said.
"Believe me, I do."
Carol shuddered as he was behind her in a blink of an eye. He could do anything and she couldn't stop him.
The fact that he wouldn't do anything was something that she reminded herself of. But the thought in her mind, it continued to stew and simmer like a hamster running around on a wheel.
"So, what do you want to do know?"
Carol thought about radioing back to headquarters but any back up wouldn't have helped her.
"I actually…..want to propose an alliance, considering that there are dangerous alien races that could pose a threat to the world…..you might already know this," Carol said, she was trying to fish for information.
The smile was one that caused many younger females to drop to their knees. An experienced woman like Carol Danvers was able to see right through it, at least for the most part.
"Maybe I do."
He made her wait for that answer.
"I think that you should discuss these matters with some of the other people on this island, they would be more equipped to answer your questions," Kal told her, slowly ensuring that her mind would go wild because of the possibilities.
"Would they?" Carol asked. "I was hoping that you would be able to….."
"Let's walk and talk," Kal said to her, offering her to lead the way. "Do you want me to go first or do….."
"You know the lay of the land, after you."
To Be Continued.
