Jump Chain Gothic 14 - Smallville

Part 12

The Thunderchild. Smallville Verse.

"It's one hell of a design," said my companion Samantha Carter as we both looked over a blueprint of the device I planned for us to soon build "But I can calculate the right amount of naquadah we need to use so as to enhance it".

While the two Talis were great engineers it was Sam who knew naquadah best, having studied the material in great length, and she knew bombs better than my other science types having studied the use of technology in warfare more than any other of my companions, even Veronica Renata Santangelo who'd grown up with the Brotherhood of Steel.

I'd also recalled Seven of Nine from her explorations but she had entered a regeneration cycle as while she could sleep she preferred the process of regeneration when working as it took up less time. As such she would join us later and aid with the work.

"Good," I told Sam as I got up from behind my desk and began to mess about with her zipper of the silver and black jumpsuit that she wore "But before we get to work I want to mess about a bit. I'm feeling frisky".

In a quick movement, I undid the jumpsuit so that it dropped the group and without a word of protest or complaint she stepped out of it. Not that she had any reason to object as we'd known each for decades and she'd long since gotten used to submitting to me sexually.

While looking her up and down I saw that her tits were covered by a tasteful looking red bra, it was not quite a frilly thing, but it was not just a practical piece of garb either, and her underwear matched.

"Sir?" she said, "What do you want me to do for you?".

I gave her breasts, that I'd made much larger than the originals over the different Jumps, a quick squeeze before pulling back so that I could admire the body I'd modified in ways that were both obvious and subtle. She was much older than she appeared, but I kept her young and firm thanks to technology. Also, she was stronger, tougher, smarter and healthier than the other versions of Samantha Carter that I'd met during the Stargate Jump.

"On your knees" I ordered, "You know what I want".

Samantha wasted no time, sinking to the ground before me and she was soon unbuckling my trousers and pulling out my cock. Samantha took my cock in her hands without any prompting, as she'd done this many times before and would do so many times again before Jump Chain finally came to an end.

Her mouth slid over the head of my manhood without any rush as she sucked on my dick, slowly pulling more and more of me into her mouth until she pulled back and then went to it all in her mouth. Before long she was bobbing her head up and down as she brought her mouth closer to my body at an angle.

After some time spent with her blowing me, I decided that I wanted to make this more fun for me, with this in mind I brought my hands up and took hold of her blond hair, stopping her from sucking me for a moment. It was all the warning I gave her before I turned the blowjob into a good old fashioned face fucking session. I began thrusting into her throat while pulling her head down my cock again and again.

Of course, she'd known what I was about to do. I'd gotten far rougher with my companions over the years as well as kinker, and none of them minded as they'd gotten used to it as time passed. I'd even modified my companions on a genetic level for extra toughness, for those who needed it, so that stuff like this didn't harm them. As it turned out it was even possible to totally remove the gag reflex.

That wasn't the only modification in that part of the body I'd made to Samantha. She also had a very powerful voice box that would let her emit a supersonic scream like Black Canary if she so wished. It was as if she had an inbuilt sonic weapon. Not that this mattered at this moment.

By now I could feel the drool began collecting at the corners of her mouth and within a few moments, it started trailing down to her chin as I used her mouth for my own gratification. She did her best to stay relaxed and to make humming noises to help me cum quicker. I could have used my powers to put her into a state of bliss, but I'd decided against it as this time I wanted to simply use her for my own pleasure.

It wasn't long before I felt my release coming and I knew that it would feel good. I so adored having such strong women doing things such as this because they really wanted to please me, and not just because I could make them. It was rush that had never gotten old despite me having been doing things like for over a century. Not that it really felt like a long time. Some Jumps seemed to end much more quickly than others, depending on how much I was having and how well I kept busy. And for an immortal, the years going by meant very little.

While gripping tightly her long blonde hair, I pulled Samantha's head all the way down on my cock one last time, so much so that I could her feel her nose pressed into me, and then I let loose inside her. When I let go of her she took a few deep breaths and I saw that her eyes had watered.

"Feel better, Sir?" she inquired "Did that help?".

It had indeed, I felt more focused on now.

"I feel great," I told the woman who was still on her knees "Now let's go build a big bomb".

She took that as permission to get off the floor, and while she grabbed her jumpsuit on the way out she didn't bother getting dressed again right away.

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The Thunderchild. Smallville Verse.

This UNSC style NOVA Bomb was a cluster of nine nuclear fusion warheads encased in a lithium triteride case. When the warheads were activated, the lithium triteride shell focuses the blast in upon itself, multiplying the destructive power a hundredfold. This gave the NOVA Bomb an unprecedented payload for its size. Its capability to destroy a planet has earned it the nickname "planet-killer."

A NOVA Bomb was accidentally detonated by a group of Huragok who were stationed on the Covenant vessel Sublime Transcendence, a vessel that served as the Flagship of the Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose. Immediately after Kwassass , an Unggoy who happened to be stationed on the Sublime Transcendence, deciphered Admiral Whitcomb's message, a Huragok, through their curiosity and frenzied obsession, fixed the circuitry of the bomb, detonating it despite Kwassass's attempts to stop them. The Huragok completed the detonation timer's circuit, which promptly resulted in the bomb's activation.

The resulting explosion occurred between a Covenant outpost planet Joyous Exultation and its moon, Malhiem, scorching half of the planet and shattering the moon. The resulting winds on Joyous Exultation flattened cities and spawned tidal waves. Radiation flooded the planet and killed everything living on it, penetrating the surface of the planet to its core. Every ship within the NOVA Bomb's range, save for those on the opposite side of the planet, boiled and vaporized in an instant. As expected the planet became no longer capable of supporting life.

Also, the NOVA Bomb explosion completely destroyed three-fifths of the fleet that was there, totalling over 300 ships. Eighteen Destroyers, two Cruisers, one Carrier and the Flagship Incorruptible escaped the NOVA Bomb explosion due to a Slipspace jump en masse just seconds prior to the explosion. Other ships arrived from Joyous Exultation to reinforce the Incorruptible, suggesting that they escaped the bomb's detonation as a result of being positioned on the opposite side of the planet. The novel describes the explosion as though "a small star erupted between Joyous Exultation and its moon.

As if that wasn't enough I'd added enough naquadah to the device to ensure that it would be even more devasting. When I sent this bomb, a word that didn't really do it justice, as planned to the version of Earth that had been conquered by those shape-shifting aliens, it would take out not only the whole planet, but the moon as well, and even alter the orbits of some of the other planets within the Sol System.

"Do we really need something this powerful?" Samatha Carter asked me.

While Seven of Nine hadn't expressed any concern over building this device other than practical issues, Sam wasn't as okay with blowing up a version of her homeworld.

"We already have a Nova Bomb from the Andromada Ascendant and that can cause a star to go nova" I reminded the former airforce officer "and we could replicate that technology so we can out whole solar systems if we wished".

That was the sort of thing I'd figured I wouldn't need until the Warhammer 40k Jump as there had to be something I could use to take out the Nid hive fleets, Necron Tomb worlds and Ork empires.

"And an overloaded ZPM would actually do more damage" I then pointed out.

I'd only once used a ZPM as a weapon, and hopefully, until the Warhammer 40k Jump, I never would again because if nothing else I could not replenish my supply of Zero Point Modules, and while I had more than enough for my energy needs it would be wise to have other means of blowing whole planets within my grasp for that very dangerous Jump.

"How do you plan to deploy it?" was Sam's next question.

It wasn't me who answered that.

"Magically created portals would be the most simple method" stated Seven of Nine, who had come over to join us "However, I could installed a Sliding Device if you wished".

A Sliding Device was a technology seen on the show Sliders that allowed for the creation of short-lived wormholes between dimensions. If you had good enough power generation and a decent guidance system for this tech, both of which we had, then we could fire these planet busters across the multiverse. This meant that I had the power to destroy any world within the DC multiverse as long as I knew where it was.

"Install a Sliding Device into this prototype" I ordered, "and once it is ready we'll test this weapon on some lifeless rock before blowing up that conquered Earth".

Right now I was thinking about adding a hyperdrive to the next model so that I could blow up planets in the same dimension as myself across whole galaxies. Even for the Warhammer 40k universe, this was going to be noticeable so it was best done from some secure out of the way place.

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Lab. Lux.

Down in the lowest levels of my casino/nightclub/restaurant/penthouse, I worked well into the night as I put together the complex DNA chains for my ultimate form, the genes had to be perfect, but DNA was only part of the picture. I needed this powerful body to have organs that could support the incredible brain that body would soon have. Assuming that I was able to finish my work.

Rather than simply look into making more effective versions of existing organs I'd been researching what was called a binary vascular system. In theory, at least, I would be able to sustain damage to one heart and still survive due to the presence of the backup. But I didn't think that would work though, because the human circulatory system is a closed system, so if one heart were damaged there would have to be a shunting system in place to keep things moving, otherwise, the flow of blood would stop as the resistance against the second heart only increased.

There were some significant disadvantages to consider as well. In a human, the left lung is actually smaller than the right lung so as to accommodate the heart, having two with the same size would come at the expense of the other lung. But I could replace the lungs of the currently normal human body with smaller and more effective ways of taking in oxygen. Plus I had to consider the stress caused by such high blood pressure and how that would affect the body.

While I wanted to keep the ultimate form as human as possible there were alien features that I wanted to add to the body, and if possible I'd like to alter the human parts to improve them using the alien features as a guide rather than create some sort of hybrid creature. After all the whole point of taking in a fraction of the God-Emperor's power was to become an advanced and powerful human.

Granted becoming a near-ascended human had been great, and those powers had been more than enough for my needs in past Jumps, but those powers weren't going to be great enough for when it came to dealing with some of the bigger threats out there in the DC multiverse and the Warhammer 40k universe. Even my Kryptonian form wouldn't be enough to allow to me battle daemon princes and new gods.

There were plenty of features from aliens that I wanted this ultimate form to have such as superhumanly density, super speed, super strength, a healing factor as well as a number of other powers, mostly involving the mind. To support all of that I needed a body that could harness the energy required and a way to gather that energy as required without burning the body from the inside out.

Kryptonians took power from the radiation of a yellow sun, but not every star system had the right kind of radiation, and in planes of existence like hyperspace there was no solar energy at all, so I needed to be able to power myself with something else. The Force was a possibility, however, the amount of energy that I could call upon from the Force depended on the Midi-chlorians not just the sturdiest of the body, and it wasn't a simple matter to increase them.

This was because Midi-chlorians were intelligent microscopic life-forms that served as organelles within all living cells, at least within the Star Wars galaxy, existing in a symbiotic relationship with the beings they inhabited and they comprised a collective consciousness among themselves

They allowed for a connection with the pervasive energy field known as the Force and in sufficient numbers, midi-chlorians could allow their symbiont organism (such as myself) to detect the Force, and this connection could be strengthened by quieting one's mind, allowing the midi-chlorians to "speak" to their symbiont and communicate the will of the Force. Actually that was a bit of oversimplification for the process, but basically correct.

Counts as low as 2,000 midi-chlorians per cell provided no sensitivity to the Force and an average Human had less than 2,500 per cell, while a mildly Force-sensitive being had a count in excess of 5,000. Jedi had especially high midi-chlorian counts, and of them, Anakin Skywalker was said to have the highest ever recorded at over 20,000, even higher than the powerful Jedi Master Yoda. As for me, I had a rather average count of midi-chlorians I'd just had a long time to learn how to use them.

Since trying to increase my midi-chorian count was beyond my ability and didn't seem like something I should mess about with as the midi-chlorians might object, and I couldn't count on being around the right kind of star I had to find an alternate energy source to full my ultimate form and its powers. Mere chemical gotten from food would not be anywhere near enough, and while I'd be able to call upon the Force in that body, as the energy field didn't care which body I used, I would need something else to power this ultimate form.

Alas, magic wasn't a possibility as I'd simply never been able to figure out a way to use that kind of energy to power abilities that weren't magical in nature. Sure I could call upon the energy field known as the Force to enhance powers that didn't directly come from the Force, but magic seemed to have a will of its own or at least certain rules that could be bent yet never completely broken.

After getting a certain bonus from Jump Chan I'd begun to research using psychic energy to fuel this new form, but to do that, I would need to become a psyker. All psykers drew their powers from the extradimensional realm known as the Immaterium or the Warp that underlies four-dimensional realspace and is the source of all psychic energy in the universe. Since the Warp would exist in some form wherever you found people, as they generated the energy in the Warp, my ultimate form should have an endless supply of energy, and if there were no people in some dimension I found myself in I just wouldn't use that form.

Psykers, particularly human psykers whose minds are far less disciplined and easily tempted than those the like the Aeldari, were often in danger of possession by the daemonic entities of the Warp, insanity and ultimate corruption by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos.

This wasn't a concern right now, but it would be in the future and that was what made taking in a small fraction of the Emperor's powers so important as it would keep me safe from such threats, at least to an extent. I would still need to resist them by not giving in to the temptations of power that they could offer, but I would be able to call upon the Warp without making a hole in reality or becoming possessed by a demonic creature of some sort.

Since I had a way powering such a mighty form I had to focus on making the correct alterations. They would take time and I'd not be able to perform the changes myself as I'd be in a pod. So I had to ensure that everything was ready before the alterations were started. I should be able to make improvements even once the ultimate form was finished, I would just have to be extremely careful in doing so.

"Gothic there is someone here to see you," Cameron told me over the comm.

I saved my work and headed up to find out whatever it was my cyborg protector and companion required me to deal with. Besides I needed a break.

(Line Break)

Homeless Shelter. Metropolis.

"I don't think you ever saw it, but we had a similar set up in Sunnydale," Morgana said to Padme as the two women toured the building that housed the charitable organisation that had been recently set up "That shelter was aimed more towards those who lost loved ones because of vampire and demons attacks".

Padme who had been more concerned with helping the colonies on the Halloween Earth and then with the civilizations of the Halloween Universe hadn't spent much time in the town of Sunnydale as such she didn't have much knowledge of what had gone on there during that Jump.

"I didn't see it" confirmed the former queen and senator "was it as large as this place?".

The charitable organisation they'd set up in this city was much larger than the one Morgana had helped to run during the Buffy Verse Jump, and by the looks of things around here, they'd have to move this operation to an even larger building soon. In fact, Morgana was thinking that it might be better to have a whole set of buildings created just for this operation.

Very likely it would be years before they sent enough men to the DCAU world that had no men as while there were plenty of healthy human males who would happily move dimensions as there was little to keep them in this reality, the locals might object to these men, even those discarded by society, being sent to another world without the public being told.

As such things had to be done secretly and at a slow pace so as not to tip anyone off, any investigator might not understand what was happening here, and could mistakenly believe that the men were getting sent off to serve as slave labour or something like that.

"No this place is much larger," Morgana said.

While they could use magic to expand an internal space without affecting the other dimensions this was another thing the companions had to be careful about as they didn't want to draw more attention to this place.

"Do we have any suitable candidates?" Padme wondered as the two women entered an office that had been set up for those of Gothic's companions who came here to help run things "I've been busy helping the refugees from that destroyed Earth resettle in their new home so I haven't had a chance to go through any of the files you have here".

All of them had been rather busy since arriving in this reality. Those who were not out exploring other dimensions or the vastness of space in this universe had found projects to keep themselves occupied with. This was a nice change of pace after the last Jump which had been rather dull when compared to others. Not that Padme had much to compare it with since she'd only joined the group during Jump 12.

As for the refugees they came from yet another version of the DCAU that had been overrun by world-destroying aliens who had enslaved what was left of mankind on that version of Earth so that the humans could be fed upon by the aliens.

Since the invaders had blotted out the sun and done massive damage to the planet's ecosystem, so much so that a massive terraforming effort would be required to repair it, Gothic had decided to save as many people as they could before destroying that version of Earth.

This might seem rather extreme, but those aliens had already destroyed at least one other civilization before reaching Earth and once done with that planet they would have attempted to do so again. By destroying them along with that world they had hopefully saved future civilizations from facing the same fate in the future.

"Most of the men suitable for relocation to the No-Men Dimension are war veterans and a couple of recently separated men whose wives kicked them out, they had nowhere else to go and so came here," Morgana told her friend "They have some mental problems, but nothing is wrong with their health that we can't easily fix, I think they'd be happier in a world that actually values them".

Padme was surprised.

"We take in men who are married?" she asked.

Morgana passed over a few files.

"We only have a few cases" she explained "These are men who married young and don't know what to do with themselves when their wives kick them out of their homes, or they have lost their jobs, or homes for other reasons. I was shocked by the statistics about suicide rated for men in such situations. They aren't that young now, but we have ways of extending lives and women in the No-Men World can't afford to be too picky".

Padme opened up some other files.

"I see we have some men who left military service and couldn't rejoin society," she said upon reading the files "Some mental issues, but those issues aren't genetic and can be treated".

Morgana agreed.

"Miranda is helping to set things up in the facilitates in that other dimension," the Seer told the other woman "Any men we send will have the best medical treatment we can provide as well as therapy. It's important that they have real lives in that world, and that they be more than just breeding stock".

Morgana had considered that it might be simpler just to rob sperm banks, but the way they dealing with this issue was a better solution in the long run.

"Let's sort through these files" Padme was now saying "I want to send a few men before the week is out as they have been patient enough in that other dimension".

With that, the two women got to work.

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Lux. Metropolis

"I didn't think she'd fit in with my other companions," I said to Cameron as we entered the nightclub part of the building "She's not the sociable type and even if she was the other girls don't like her".

Since I'd not known what to do with a version of the former Peacekeeper officer Aeryn Sun who I had captured during a Yautja incursion I'd left her on the Thunderchild knowing that she'd be safely contained and unable to do any harm. A few of my companions had gone to meet the soldier woman and they hadn't left her room in a good mood as such I understood that soon Aeryn Sun would have to leave.

I figured that after giving her some weapons, armour, supplies and something to use as money that I could drop her off at some port out there in the bigger galaxy that was used to having different races visiting, and then I could let Miss Sun go her own way. This was for the best as who joined my companions wasn't a choice I could make alone, the group had to agree to welcome any newcomers or the group would start having problems.

For now, I had something else to deal with. While Lux ran itself, there were rare times when I needed to do something to make sure it kept running, and this was one of them. Apparently some of the locals had barged their way into the building and were demanded to speak with the owner. This building had security, but this wasn't a direct threat.

Before even going anywhere near them I'd gotten the identity of the leader of the small group. In the comic books, the human known as Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim, was the leader of the criminal organization called Intergang. This position afforded him vast resources, which he would use to control the underworld. He was also amoral and had no convictions using innocent people for his own means. He got advanced weapons from Darkseid in a deal in which Darkseid got knowledge of the Anti Life Equation in return. In the comics, after his rebirth, he was shown to have become psychopathic and also a cannibal.

Here in this universe Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim was a mobster and owner of the Ace of Clubs after killing its previous owner, Ron Milano, but at this point in the timeline, he was only a thug for the mob and Ace of Clubs owner Ron Milano. I knew this because the Ace of Clubs was one of Lux's rivals in this world, although it really couldn't compare.

He was here with a couple of other men and judging by the baseball bat one of them carried they hadn't come here to check out the competition. They were either going to threaten me into shutting down, demand a share of the profits for letting me operate in their neighbourhood, or they would try to get some protection money from me. Not that they would get anything that would profit them in any way.

Lux came with its own security people who were more than capable of defending the building from crooks, but that wouldn't solve this problem in the long run. As such, I sent them away as Cameron and I would need to deal with the crime boss's underlings.

"Mr Milano..."

I stopped Bruno before he could start making threats on behalf of his employer as I didn't have any need or desire to hear him speak. The man might be wearing a well-tailored suit, I also knew that he was carrying a gun, but while he might be a big deal in the criminal world and a threat to any humans who crossed his path, but to me, he and friends were nothing more than minor irritants, mere bugs to swatted as soon as they annoyed me.

"Bring Bruno down to the lab so I can extract his memories," I said to Cameron "Kill the other two".

While I didn't normally treat human lives so carelessly, these people had come to my home and bothered me, and I felt certain that this city would be a more pleasant place to live without them in it. Cameron didn't care at all, she vaporised the two thugs before they could take any action and she switched the phaser to stun, and fired it again before the last remaining mob guy was able to get his gun out of his suit jacket.

"If you take out the organised crime group in this area another will move in and you'll have to deal with this problem again" Cameron warned me as we headed down to the lab with Bruno getting dragged by her "We need a more permanent solution".

Giving the matter some thought I soon came up with a solution.

"I'll take control of the criminal element in this part of the city" I decided "We can use the robot double that was made for me during the Buffy Verse Jump back when I worked at the school. As long as you keep an eye on the bot he should be able to run the day to day affairs, and with the bot in place, we can make sure there's no drug dealing going on around here".

Soon I expanded upon the idea.

"We can increase security around Lux to ensure that this neighbourhood is as safe and clean as possible" I was now saying "If we can keep it safe and boring we won't draw any attention from the cops or the superheroes who will start popping up over the next decade".

Cameron didn't indicate if she approved or not of this plan, but she did choose to get involved.

"Security is my concern," she said "I'll make the arrangments and make sure things stay nice and peaceful around here. I'll inform you if I need help. Other groups of crooks may try to muscle in on your territory. If that happens I'll need some extra resources".

Setting up a criminal empire held no interest to me, I just wanted to make sure that Lux, and the people in it, were no longer bothered by such scum, and to ensure that I needed to know everything Bruno knew about organised crime around here. Once I had faces and names I could have Cameron vaporise them all so that there were no bodies for the police to find, and then replace the organisation with some natives who could be recruited by the robot me and Cameron.

Once I had downloaded the memories I needed I'd dump Burno off in one of the less pleasant versions of Earth in this part of the multiverse once I was done with him. No quick death for him since he'd bothered me when I should have been working more on my ultimate form.

While entering the lab I spent a moment wondering if I should become a crime lord and take over the underworld in this city. After all, I had a whole decade to fill and it might be amusing, at least for a while.