Zarda hated waking up in the mornings nowadays since it meant breaking off the sleeping embrace that she shared with Peter. She collected her Power Princess garb to be put in her bag as she got dressed in jeans and a shirt along with her special Utopian necklace for boxing as it brought her strength, endurance and invulnerability to near human level. She began making breakfast as she smiled at Peter who was dressed in his boxers and a shirt.
Peter sat down to eat his breakfast and Zarda when she was almost done smirked as she picked up a tart and squirted it right into Peter's face. Peter jumped out of his seat as Zarda told him "so sorry Peter, got a bit careless but best not to let it go to waste..." Peter was unprepared for Zarda taking his arms so that she could go in and lick the tart jam off him and kiss his lips. "So sweet." Zarda said with a big smile as Peter went to wash his face.
"You are like hundreds of years old Zarda and yet here you are acting so immature..." Peter muttered as Zarda came closer.
"As if you are anymore mature yourself Peter..." Zarda replied as honestly outside of messing with Peter and responding to certain immature fellow members of the Squadron; she did act with much maturity and seriousness most of the time. Allowing herself to act immature and messing with Peter really was fun though. She then kissed him on the cheek and said goodbye as she headed to the gym.
After changing into her sports bra, shorts and wearing her Utopian necklace she was sparring with her blonde haired friend Trish Walker who was in similar boxing attire. She had been a teen child star in the sitcom It's Patsy and was now known as a celebrity and host of a radio news program. "Come on Trish; give me the best that you got..." Zarda said getting pumped up and excited as she couldn't help but love the adrenaline in battle whether it was against a giant monster or in boxing where she could possibly be taken down. Trish managed to take her down with a good enough punch.
"So I knocked Power Princess out, do I get to be in the Squadron now?" Trish asked with a smirk as she helped Zarda up who laughed. "So how is it with Peter? You replaced Hyperion as his fave hero yet?" Trish asked as Zarda smiled but shook her head. It was a bit annoying to her knowing that Peter liked Hyperion more as a hero than her even if it was her that he had fallen in love with. Still it meant that his superhero fanboyism was in check and she knew that his feelings for her were genuine (as well as being attracted to her physically as well). At least he wasn't one of those worms who would go on message boards to brag that he was with Power Princess.
Hyperion was a good friend and despite for year's people thinking they would be the ultimate power couple; it didn't work out when they dated. Hyperion did find it amusing when he learned that Zarda's boyfriend was a total fanboy of him. Plus she could totally understand him being a fanboy of Steve Rogers better known as Captain America as well; one of the bravest and most heroic people that she had ever met and was a man far ahead of his time.
"No, I am still in 3rd place behind Hyperion and Captain America. Maybe I should invite Hyperion over and see if he totally steals Peter away from me." Zarda joked and Trish laughed as they went into sparring poses to start boxing again.
"look at it this way Zarda; not only do you have Peter but at least you have a better ass than them." Trish said doing her best to dodge Zarda's punches.
"Well I remember women checking out Steve and America's ass..." Zarda replied shaking her head as she heard her phone go off in her bag and she went to answer it. It came from Phil Coulson who was a government agent who was the original government liaison to the Squadron Supreme and had been their biggest supporters in government. He had ended up becoming a senator and was now serving as President of the United States. "Nice to hear from you again Coulson, would have thought that you had an agent call me if you needed to get in touch now that you live in the White House." Zarda said answering the call.
"Though that I would give this call to your personally for old time's sake. You think that you can get to this base by these coordinates please as there is a certain someone who wants to off something that is supposedly to help global saftey." Coulson answered and Zarda said that she had to go as duty called. Trish said she understood but there was a hint of jealous to her voice as Zarda went to her changing room to change into her Power Princess garb. She then went out the backdoor as she psyonically propelled herself into the air which was near flight as she went to the base's coordinates which were in the message.
The base had several tanks and big missile launchers set up and met with her fellow Squadron Supreme members who were at a safe distance along with several government and military officials that included the US Secretary of Defense James Rhodes and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Glenn Talbot.
Among the Squadron was the tall and muscular orange haired Hyperion in his red suit with a yellow atom symbol on it, yellow cape was draped over a single shoulders, yellow underwear like garment that looked like it was stretched to his waist and yellow boots. He was secretly Mark Milton who was raised with great values and morals by his farmer foster parents and now worked as an American history teacher in Kensington, Maryland.
There was billionaire owner of Richmond Industries as well as Washington's congressman in the House of Representatives; Kyle Richmond secretly known as Nighthawk who was wearing a dark blue bodysuit with a black symbol on it, dark blue cape with shoulder decorations that resembled hawk's claws and a dark blue cowl that was shaped like a hawk's head. He had inherited a fortune after his wealthy parents had died when he was a young age and decided to train his body and mind to the peak of human limits and became a costumed vigilante. He had gone into politicians thinking that he could help the world as a politician as well as a crime fighter. He was a valued friend and ally even if he had a hard time trusting people.
There was Joe Ledger who went by Doctor Spectrum; he was a man in a blue, yellow, red and green bodysuit and a red full face mask along with a glowing alien stone known as the Power Prism on his backhand. He was Joe Ledger an air force colonel was acting as an astronaut when he came across the Power Prism which granted him great power including flight and the ability to create light based constructs with his thoughts. He was despite an immature flirt and Zarda certainly knew that in the first year of the Squadron's existence.
The other big Squadron member was Stanley Stewart who went by the Blur the world's fastest mortal who wore a yellow and black bodysuit with a black mask which had a hole for his mouth and orange lenses. He had been a jogger who had walked into strange mist that altered his chemistry and gave him his great speed but it left him with a short attention span which was plain to see right now. He was also kind of reckless and immature as well. He spent his free time texting, playing video games, watching various screens and doing several different jobs a day. When he was a child his mother was killed and his father was sent to prison for the murder. The Squadron ended up finding out it was caused by Blur's greatest foe Speed Demon who was a demented fanboy and had travelled back to hurt Stanley emotionally with help from one of the Squadron's most dangerous foes the time travelling warlord and tyrant Kang the Conqueror.
There was Albert Gaines who went by Nuke a young man who gained nuclear powers after having been exposed to some radioactive chemicals, he had long yellow hair and a red, blue and yellow containment suit. He was a bit arrogant and too sure of the Squadron always winning and could be seen by Joe's side as they were closest to eachother in the Squadron as friends. Plus there was Arcanna Jones a blonde haired woman in a dark green leotard, fishnet stockings and a white jacket. She was a sorceress who was also a dedicated family woman with her husband and children.
Zarda groaned along with others when they saw coming up to them was a man in a business suit, sunglasses and had a goatee wand an arrogant demeanour about him. He was Tony Stark the owner of Stark Industries a renowned weapons manufacturing company as well as other technologies. He was a brilliant inventor but was also an arrogant playboy. "Hey there Rhodes old friend." Stark told James Rhodes who shook his head and greeted the Squadron and Zarda in particular and Zarda scowled. "You are looking as lovely as ever Zarda." Stark told her and Zarda glared at him regretting that night a decade ago.
He then faced everyone and said "I thank you all for coming and it's an honour to have you all here. Especially the Squadron Supreme but we all know that you all might not be here forever. We can't exactly expect you all to save the day everytime. I am proposing my project to you all to put a suit of armor around the world that can protect the planet in a way no other way. Don't worry as I will pay the bill to replace all these tanks and launchers." Tony said smirking as the saw a figure fly in the sky.
It shot down blasts from its hands destroying the tanks and launchers to which made it look easy. The onlookers looked on as the figure flied down and it was someone in a high tech robotic suit colored dark red, dark blue and silver with the helmet being dark red with a silver faceplate. It had a glowing star on its chest showing it to be the power source. The figure then took off the helmet to reveal a smiling balding haired man.
"It's more of a titanium alloy but PR came up with the name but here it goes as I introduces to you America's newest hero the Iron Patriot. A state of the art armored powerhouse and it's pilot; lieutenant colonel Eric Savin!" Stark said as the officials started clapping and the Squadron members clapped politely but looked sceptical.
Decided to tweak Blur's backstory to resemble Barry Allen's current backstory and replacing Scarlet Centurion as a Squadron foe with his more well known form Kang the Conqueror. Yeah Kang has had many different identities in the different timelines that he rules over as his kingdom.
I was toying with instead of Iron Patriot I have it be War Machine piloted by Frank Castle whose story would be inspired by John Walker in Falcon and the Winter Soldier.