[Batman Bruce]
The smell of perfumes was the first thing he noticed, the second was the the the voices of different women, finally, he noticed that he was laying on a comfortable bed.
He would have jumped or struggled to get free, but there were no restraints on him, it was just him on a bed.
"I've lived long enough to know that something rules over this place, what are we, prisoner? slaves your playthings?" I asked the ruler of the ship, truth be told I want expecting an answer, things like this hardly ever answered and when they did it was usually to gloat, or say that it had our lives in its hands, and could do what it wanted with us.
My help screen opened on its own and I found a message written on it, it wasn't a comforting one.
"Playmates for my children, my masters"
"What if we want to leave?" I asked it and immediately I was shown a planet where a barrier was being set up.
"Feel free to do so, better to keep them safe" were the words written on the screen.
"Why, there were other worlds, people that could have helped" I said to it and immediately I understood the next set of words written on the screen.
"No there weren't, think about it, many versions of yourself all in one place, an army attacking and a ship filled with refugees. The answer is in front of you"
It was something I had suspected, but in all honesty, I hoped I was wrong, there weren't any other worlds, no other realities, we were all that was left.
"What are you going to do with us?"
"Inside me, you must follow my rules, anywhere else you are free to do as you want, I only care for my masters, my children." Again that word children.
I heard the door to my room open and I watched Selina place a tray of food on the table next to me.
"Did you have a good nap?" she said to me, before taking a glass of water and anding it to me, I looked at the glass and then to her, she smiled and began to drink it in front of me.
"Sleeping potions, better than some drugs, it was just your bad luck that I was getting ready for bed when we met" she said to me as she took a seat on the bed.
"Why?" I asked her.
"How much do you know?" she asked me.
"We're on a ship, there are no other realities we can escape to and there are different versions of us running around" I answered her.
"No Bruce, how long have you been on the ark?" she changed her question, however, she already knew the answer.
"Two days, we were fighting a zombie invasion when we were invaded." I answered her, there was no point in lying.
"I'll make our reasons quick, there are people that came from places where women were protected and kept safe, it was them that wanted to keep their women and children away from the battlefield"
"Most women abused of that, we aren't as strong as men, physically and mentally."
"In the past, a lot of women would have had my head for even saying that, but...women have wombs Bruce, wombs that can produce children that become soldiers."
Selina's words were heavy as if remembering something she would rather not.
We found birthing chambers, it was then that the rule of marriage was enacted, they were strapped to machines, some twisted atrocity of magic and technology"
"One of the adventurers killed them all, but the machines didn't turn off, so he broke them all, we later found out that the machines didn't need them to be alive and that part of the machines function was to keep them sane."
"That's what they do to women they capture, that's the reason we want a husband, you're an excuse to stay as far away from the battle as possible," she explained to me.
"We're going to settle a new world soon" I said to her, however she just began to laugh.
"No, Bruce things are different now, even if were to settle, our populations are small...All of them are...this rule isn't going to go away, the women won't let it, we've seen too much"
I watched her as she rose walked to the table and began to move, I heard the sound of silverware hitting a plate, then she turned around and carried to me the plate filled with food.
I noticed that the meat was cut into bite-size pieces, Selina sat next to, placed the plate on her lap used a fork, took a piece of meat and fed it to me.
"What if I said yes?" I asked her.
"Then you would have six women as your wives and would be expected to impregnate all of them" I heard the voice of my older self, I now understand what people meant when they said that I cut the mood that had set in.
"I suggest you take the offer, better to be with people you already know" my older self said as he walked in.
I could see the other Selina's behind him as well as the young woman that had accompanied me earlier.
"Bruce" Selina said as she looked at my older self.
"I heard your conversation, so you know about the planet' my older self said to me, however, I didn't answer him.
"No one is signing up to colonize, the chatroom is filled with people arguing, but everyone is busy and as things stand we already have a batman."
"So you want me to go down" I said to him and my older self's answer was simply to close his eyes.
"They can go down with you and because we both own one or more buildings, they will be able to return to the ark and have a place to come back to if things go bad" headed.
None of us said anything, and I clicked yes on my help screen the last thing I saw before I covered in women, was my older self letting a small smile form on his face.