LSH: THE EVIL DR REGULUS

By Bruce Wayne

Based on the plot in Adventure Comics 348 "Target: 21 Legionnaires"
by Jim Shooter

Disclaimer: The characters that appear in this story belong to DC Comics.
I am writing this for pleasure, and sharing it with friends. I am, in no
way, getting paid for it.



CHAPTER 2 - SURPRISES


Lyle Norg's code-name was Invisible Kid. He was born on Earth about
18 years before being voted the Legion's new leader. As his name implied,
Lyle was able to turn himself invisible. Having earned a degree in bio-
chemistry from Metropolis University at the age of 12, Lyle could easily
be called a "boy genius." After Brainiac 5, he was the Legion's top
scientist.

Before becoming a member of the Legion, his pet project had been
to develop a serum that would make a person invisible. After a few years,
he succeeded and managed to perfect his formula, which enabled a person's
sweat glands to produce, in mass quantities and on command, a chemical
that warps light around a person, rendering him invisible to the naked
eye. Lyle, for obvious reasons, tailored the formula to his own physiology.

The new leader of this famed group of teenagers was dressed in a
form-fitting outfit that was mostly brown and tan in color. Around his mid-
riff was a green belt. A thin green swath of cloth went vertically from his
belt up to almost mid-chest, where it ended in a green octagon-shaped design.
The material around his neck was mostly tan with a wide collar. To complete
the uniform was a tan head-band around the brown hair of Lyle.

Invisible Kid was already known to have good leadership abilities
and he wasted no time to inform the Legionnaires what they would be doing
later in the day.

He opened his remarks by saying, "First, I'd like to thank all
those who voted for me. I will work very hard to earn the trust and
confidence that you have given me. I am informed that this afternoon
the Legion has been asked to perform at a charity event at the Metropolis
Arena that will benefit the Inter-Stellar Orphanage."

Some of the Legionnaires looked at one another and smiled. They
always enjoyed showing off their powers without having to worry about
someone trying to kill them or hurt innocents.

Lyle continued, "I know many of you will be going home for a
few days and Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, and Ferro Lad are going
on a mission to Cyranus. I'm sure the three of them will be able to
handle the problem there."

He then looked around the room. "So, who will be attending the
event this afternoon? A show of hands please?"

Cosmic Boy, Colossal Boy, Phantom Girl, Brainiac 5, Sun Boy,
Duo Damsel and Superboy raised their hands.

Lyle smiled. "Okay, that's great! I'm sure we'll put on a great
show for the orphanage. Any questions? All right, for those attending
we'll meet at the arena at about noon. Do I hear a motion to adjourn
this meeting?"

"I make the motion," Ferro Lad said.

"I second it," added Superboy.

The members of the Legion of Super-Heroes voted "aye," and the
meeting was adjourned.


***


A screen made of eight yellowed segments covered the center section
of the far wall of Nura Nal's combination living and dining room. Nura
turned to face Val Armorr, and it was calculated, he knew, to give him
the full impact. She began to walk toward him.

She was wearing a simple white short dress that seemed to defy
gravity, barely touching her shoulders. The dress seemed to move like
a wave as she walked.

Trying not to appear as nervous as he was, he smiled and said to
her, "What can I say?"

"That I'm beautiful," she teased.

"But you already know that," he said.

"Exquisite, then," she cooed. "It's rather like being a jewel,
isn't it?"

"You should know," Val shot back.

She moved beside him and kissed him lightly on the cheek. He
was already melting. She took his left arm, hooking both her hands in
the bend of his elbow, and walked him toward her dining table.

He sat down. "What would you like, Val?" she asked coyly.

"To drink?" he asked in return.

"Yes. For now, at least, what would you like to drink?"

"Do you have any vitamin-enhanced ..."

"I'm serious," she said with a laugh. It was a nice laugh, and
Val remembered the few occasions when he'd heard it.

"I'm not sure ..."

She smiled at him and turned away to the replicator on the wall.
She pressed a pre-set button and two glasses of a blue liquid materialized.

"What is this?" he asked.

"Just drink it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it," she replied.

A short while later, Nura served a light lunch for the both of
them from the replicator.

There was a question that he had always wanted to ask her. "Do
you enjoy being a Legionnaire, Nura?"

She looked up at him with wide eyes. "Yes, I do. It means everything
to me, right now."

After a pause, Nura said, "Are you really very hungry? I could
just make us some sandwiches later." There was a welcoming softness in
her voice and she understood how it affected him.


***


Her hands had already opened his shirt. Her fingers played on his
chest as they stood together in the center of her bedroom.

Yellow light diffused through the shades her apartment window,
giving a natural glow to the pink and beige chevroned wallpaper behind
her bed. The bed itself was perfectly feminine. The floral-patterned bed-
spread covered the foot of the bed, the flowers nearly the color of her
eyes.

She kissed his chest.

"I-I've been constantly t-thinking about you," he managed to
blurt out.

"Shhhh." she replied by putting her index finger to his lips.

He felt her hands at his belt. He let her undo it. His hands
searched for the clasps at the back of her dress and found them. He
drew her close to him as he undid them. Under his hands she felt naked
even with her cool silk underwear.

She stepped back from him, shrugged her shoulders and moved
her hips very slightly. The dress fell to the floor.

He drew her close again, feeling her hands exploring his
crotch ...

She was straddling him, moving as her hands pressed against his
chest. His palms massaged her breasts. She tensed against him, and he
felt as if he would break, rolling over with her, almost falling together
off the bed. Nura's head was thrown back, her eyes half closed and lips
upturned in a smile warmer than he'd ever seen. Her hair flowed over the
side of the bed.

Her legs folded around his hips, and Val thrust his body against
hers, feeling the pressure of her legs as they tightened around him. Her
hands were moving now, clutching his buttocks, and he could feel her
long nails as they stabbed into his flesh.

Together, their bodies shuddered and then relaxed. After a time
of lying quietly in each other's arms, they started over again.


***


Nura sat at her vanity.

"I like to sit here and brush my hair," she said to him without
turning.

Val watched her from the bed. She wore a plain white satin robe.
Its whiteness made the color of her hair all the more striking as he watched
her brush it.

"Now aren't you glad you didn't go to the little ol' benefit this
afternoon?" she teased.

Val Armorr, who proudly carried the name Karate Kid in the Legion
of Super-Heroes, considered the question though she had asked it kiddingly.
Val really didn't know what to say.



TO BE CONTINUED ....


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