Jump Chain Gothic 14 - Smallville
Part 13
Lux. Metropolis.
"So are we getting a new little sister?" I was asked by Jane.
She, Faith and Amy had come to visit me at Lux between scouting missions to other dimensions, and currently, I was taking a break from my research into my ultimate form so that I could work on other things for a while, such as finding potential future companions. This involved me sitting in my study, that I'd styled to look like Lex Luthor's office at his castle in Smallville, while going over the files I had on DC characters.
Before starting this I'd already checked up on the other projects and they were all going well. The first men had sent to that version of DCAU that didn't have any, the refugees from that version of the DCAU that had been conquered by the shape-shifting aliens were settling a new world rather well, and Cameron had put the bot version of me in charge of the local group of organised criminals without any problems. As for the Justice League, I'd allied with some tech exchange and support, they weren't bothering my group and had everything handled on their end.
"I'm giving it some thought" I replied, "I've already made contact with a suitable subject, and I'm considering taking things further".
On the screen of the powerful computer that I was using to look through the files, there was some biographical data and photos of one Chole Sullivan who was important to the future of this world, or at least she would have been if I'd not selected this world for a Jump, now that I'd interfered with events the path of her life wasn't so certain.
I'd been checking out a wide range of what most people would consider fictional characters, who could be found here within the DC multiverse, the problem with recruiting them was that those who weren't crooks, and therefore could never be trusted, tended to have commitments, such as family, friends and a double identity as a superhero. These lives weren't something they could simply leave behind.
However, Chole Sullivan was different. She had family, but in the show, she never seemed that close to anyone other than her cousin Lois Lane, and for complex reasons, she couldn't be with her mother. Sure she had Pete Ross and Clark Kent as friends, but if the show, at least the first few seasons, were anything to go by she'd very quickly become attached to anyone who showed her attention. This suggested that she was lacking in any real attachments outside of those she worked with at the school paper.
She pinned for Clark Kent, who didn't know what a good thing he could have with Chole if stopped sniffing around Lana Lang, but his loss could be my gain. Young Miss Sullivan could be drawn away from Clark and towards me as Jack Smith/Jax-Om, and when I felt she was ready I could tell her the truth about me as well as all about Jump Chain.
"Does she have any powers?" Faith inquired.
Rather than reply verbally right away I highlighted the relevant information. Sometime before actually moving to Smallville, Chloe and Mother were exposed to meteor rock radiation and Chloe suffered a mutation that remained latent until it manifested as healing tears when Chloe was about twenty years old
In the show, Chloe used her powers for the first time at Reeves Dam, when she healed her cousin Lois Lane. Lois was bleeding severely from a deep stab wound, an injury that killed her, and after Chloe started crying, a tear fell on Lois and she was resurrected. However, Chloe herself was rendered unconscious, to such a degree that the staff at Smallville Medical Center pronounced her dead. Her powers further manifested by reviving her three hours later in full health.
For some reason, this power left her as otherwise she would have used to restore her husband Jimmy Oslen (the older brother of the more well known Oslen photographer at the Daily Planet) that could have something to do with her possession by Brainiac.
Not that this mattered much. If I did recruit her into my group I would be able to give her all sorts of powers if so desired them. I could give her magic, or evolve her already powerful mind to a whole new level.
"Her healing powers are interesting, but they aren't why I'd like to have her as a companion," I said to the girls.
During the seasons of the show, Chloe developed an amazing set of research and computer skills that allowed her to get just about any piece of information that she or her friends needed. She would be able to download satellite images, hack cellular phone records and access old newspaper archive.
Already she was highly skilled in using the Internet and other online databases that contained any information she wanted. And not only could she find needed information she would learn to create and forge information records. When Kara Kent came to Smallville, Chloe generated a detailed back story for her based on growing up in Minnesota for 19 years until Kara tracked down her blood relative, Clark Kent.
In this timeline, I'd done that for the Supergirl of this world since I'd gotten Kara out of her ship years earlier than in the show, but that didn't make Chole's achievements any less impressive since she would have been working with much less advanced technology, and she didn't have an AI. It would be interesting to see what she could do with much more advanced technology.
"So do you approve of her?" I asked the girls.
No one could join my growing gang of companions without the approval of the whole group, and this was why I'd sent a certain Peacekeeper Officer away, so I would need to run this by all of my companions at some point, but since Chole would be most suited to joining the group called the Daughters of Gothic, I would need to check in with Dawn and Violet before long. But there was no rush since I was only scouting Chole out at this point.
"She seems nice" was all Jane had to say on the subject.
Faith just shrugged.
"A new little sister would be nice" Amy stated.
For now, that would be enough approval.
"Well it will be some time before I induct her into the group in any formal way as I don't need a high school student following me around the multiverse," I said, "and she won't graduate for a few years so you'll have plenty of time to get to know her".
I intended to make contact with the young human female again soon, but before that, I had an errand that I needed to go run.
"You girls go amuse yourselves I need to go pick something up," I told them.
It wouldn't take long, but it would involve a quick trip to China.
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Temple. China.
The Stones of Power, also known as the Stones of Knowledge or simply the Elements, were three Kryptonian crystals that were supposed to contain all the knowledge of the 28 galaxies. Their power was well-known on Earth and they were sought out by many occultists and practitioners of magic despite the fact that they weren't magical items.
Years before the destruction of Krypton, the stones were created by Jor-El, alongside the Orb (an item which could unleash clones of Kryptonian soldiers that I would seek out one day) under orders from the Ruling Council. Their purpose was to supply the Kryptonian clones on Earth, with all Kryptonian knowledge. The stones were sent by a portal to Earth's past somehow and were hidden at different points on the planet. Waiting for someone to find and unite them. Over time Humanity learned of these "stones of power", and many families spending centuries searching for them.
A common feat among the crystals was the power of energy transference: The Crystal of Fire could restore Kryptonian powers to Clark, the Crystal of Water could transfer the souls of two persons and the Crystal of Air could permanently remove the Spirit of Countess Margarete Isobel Thoreaux from Lana Lang after the crystal was stained with the blood of Genevieve Teague.
If two of the stones were combined on the Kawatche Caves altar, a Kryptonian beacon would be emitted which would reveal the location of the third Stone. In the show, it somehow turned Lionel Luthor into a Kryptonian vessel for Jor-El. Later when Clark Kent finally united all three stones on the Kawatche Caves altar, the crystals transformed into the Crystal of Knowledge, which was capable of creating the Fortress of Solitude.
The Crystal of Air, the one I'd come to this place in order to acquire, was hidden in Shanghai, East China on this version of Earth by a Kryptonian a century or more prior to Clark Kent's arrival in Smallville.
In the show, the Crystal of Air was discovered using an ancient manuscript purchased by Lex Luthor, who eventually learned that the manuscript contained a hidden map. Along with Jason Teague, Lex travelled to a temple in Shanghai, but he and Jason were taken into custody, and then tortured by Chinese officers for some reason or another.
When Clark and Lana followed them to Shanghai, Lana was captured and tortured as well, causing Isobel to possess her once again. Isobel incapacitated Clark long enough to find the Crystal of Air. Clark later battled Isobel, but in the process, they lost track of the Crystal of Air, but Jason was able to pocket it unnoticed and mail it to himself from Shanghai to Smallville where he showed Lana that he had it. Before long Lana staged a break-in at their apartment above The Talon, leading Jason to believe that Lionel Luthor had stolen the Crystal of Air.
Later, Jason and his mother Genevieve Teague kidnapped both Lex and Lionel so as to torture them in an attempt to get back the crystal that they thought Lionel had stolen from them. Lionel lied and told them that he gave it to Lana, so Genevieve confronted Lana and demanded the stone. They struggled, and when Genevieve began to strangle Lana, Isobel emerged once more and used the Crystal of Air to stab Genevieve in the chest, killing her. Because she had stained the crystal with human blood, Isobel retreated and the Mark of Transference disappeared from Lana's back.
Lana entrusted the "murder weapon" to Clark for safekeeping, and Clark took the Crystal of Air to the Kawatche Caves where he united it with the Crystal of Fire. Once united, the two crystals revealed to Clark the location of the Crystal of Water. However, because the Crystal of Air was stained with human blood, this resulted in another meteor shower headings towards Earth, particularly Smallville. (Presumably, the blood on the crystal "activated" it as a beacon to other Kryptonian artefacts, waking the Black Ship and the Disciples of Zod) Or perhaps the in the Fortress had been active at the time it could have somehow diverted the shower.
Not that it mattered in this timeline as I'd destroyed the Black Ship and all the space debris with it so as to remove any risk of having the Disciples of Zod and Brainiac set lose here. However, that wasn't all that needed to be done to ensure a better future for this world. In the wrong hands, these stones could lead to a human acquiring far more power and knowledge than they'd be able to handle.
As such, I planned for a while to acquire at least one of the stones and to hide it away until Clark was ready for them. In time he would find the caves and open the chamber once he'd found one of the stones, and when that happened I would return the stone I had to him, after that if needs be we would go and locate the third, and then he could make the Fortress. I might find one of the others in time, but that didn't matter right now.
After wandering around the temple for a while I found the spot my probes had been able to narrow done for me, and then I dug up the Stone of Air that was hidden inside a statue. Before any of the locals could object to this I opened up a portal and headed back to Lux. This stone was going right in my vault.
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Coffee Shop. Smallville.
"I see Clark is playing his role of Emotional Tampon well" I commented.
After a quick trip to China to recover one of the Stones of Power, for safekeeping as I didn't intend to use it for my own benefit, I'd come to Smallville to track down Chole Sullivan and before long we'd come to the local hangout/coffee ship because that was what teenagers did in this town. Not that there was much else for them to do around here.
"Jack!" protested Chole, who clearly didn't like hearing me talk about any kind of tampons "I don't even know what that means!".
Clark and Lana were deep in conversation on the other side of the shop, and this was just after Whitney, Lana's jock boyfriend, had left. No doubt the football player had done or said something to upset his girlfriend and now Clark was providing his love interest with a shoulder to cry on. Not literally, but it wasn't that far off.
"Emotional Tampons are men who are emotionally available when so many other men are emotionally unavailable" I explained to Chole "Guys like Clark find themselves thrown into the role by the women they care about. This especially happens when a guy is trying to become more than friends with a girl who has him locked down in the dreaded friend-zone".
The sad thing is that these men usually aren't aware, or are in denial about, their doomed state and think that being friends will lead to more, but it seldom does and usually ends up with many nights of listening to her complain about the no-good guys she keeps seeing. They waste all that time trying to make her feel better after her heart has been broken again and again with hopes that their loyalty and compassion would be repaid in the near future.
Which of course rarely ever happens as after she has used her Emotional Tampon and is once again feeling better, she'll move on to another douchebag or go back to her current douchebag. As for the tampon, who is still emotionally available, they just end up feeling underappreciated.
In my experience, these men tend to suffer from lack of self-esteem and confidence. Odd for a guy like Clark who might as well be a god, but here he was getting used by Laaa. Like other Emotional Tampons, he felt responsible for other people who should be responsible for themselves. Which described Clark Kent very well.
"I don't think Lana is using Clark" Chole protested.
She wasn't doing it on purpose I figured. Lana was simply overly emotional due to all the bad things that had happened in her life, and as such, she needed a lot of support. Clark was just the poor sap who ended up carrying this burden. He'd be a much happier person if Lana were to leave or if she would wake up, dump the jock and date someone who could actually provide her with the support she clearly needed from a partner. She shouldn't date Clark it wouldn't end well,
Unlike most men in his situation Clark would end up dating Lana, or at least that would have been how things worked out in the original timeline, but Emotional Tampons rarely got the girl in the end, fiction lied about that and led to nice guys thinking that they were just patient enough they'd finally get the girl. Of course, this rarely happened and no woman was worth the emasculation.
"Maybe not on purpose, but their relationship is hardly a two-way street" I pointed out "Clark is putting in a lot of work, and getting nothing in return".
Chole gave me a look that let me know that she was thinking about what I had just said.
"So you think that relationships require both the girl and the guy to offer something to other?" she asked, "You make it sound like a business deal".
I did, and that was how it worked with my companions. They followed my orders and helped me run my projects, and in exchange, they got to explore dimensions, gain powers, and live the kind of lives most people could only dream about.
"When one person gains and the other person gives without getting anything back then its not a relationship at all" I answered, "That's having a parasite".
Chole might not totally agree with me, but she didn't feel the need to debate the issue any further, and I figured that it was time to change the subject.
"So anything going on with you?" I enquired.
Chole talked about her work at the school paper, an activity that seemed to take up most of her time. As hoped she mentioned about a lack of a date for some sort of school dance. Since I wanted to groom her as a future companion I jumped on the chance to ask her out, and when she accepted I began to make plans. I'd show her some of what I had to offer by taking her shopping for a dress and new shoes as well.
If she didn't mind when I decided what she would wear I would know that she would submit to me in other ways in the future. I would of course pay for everything, and if she accepted this as well I figured that could have a future together,
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Hideout. No-Men DCAU.
"So did you know that I was at Wayne Manor?" I asked of my captors, "or did you just have a case of good timing?".
It had all happened rather quickly, I'd been delivering some of the men who'd been selected to be sent to this world, Padme and Morgana had worked hard to find suitable people, and while I'd been meeting with Barbara Gordon, who was hosting the men at Wayne Manor, a group of female crooks had broken in.
If I'd so wished I could have driven them away or destroyed them all, instead I'd decided on the spot to let them take me in order to find out not only what they had planned, but also how they'd bypassed all the security around Wayne Manor. That could not have been easy given how paranoid Batman had been during his life.
This had led to me ending up tied to a chair in what I guessed to be one of the Joker's old hideouts, it was overly colourful and decorated in a way that offended my taste, and this made sense since Harley Quinn had been involved in the operation. Even if she hadn't been standing in front of me I would have figured it out.
"Let's just say that a certain kitty kat told us" replied Quinn.
Which meant that the Selena Kyle of this world must have found out about what was going on at Wayne Manor. This didn't surprise me at all since she was now for sometimes allying with the heroes and also for serving her own needs. Catwoman wasn't here so I figured that she was with one of the other guys who they'd grabbed.
The other woman in the room with us was Poison Ivy, an ecoterrorist, and I had to wonder if she got up to much these days as with a greatly reduced population and less demand for food, wood and so on, humans couldn't be wreaking the environment like they normally were. But no doubt she'd gotten involved this crime for some reason that would benefit her goals, even if it was just to make money.
"So what's the plan?" I asked the Joker's sidekick "Planning on keeping us for yourselves or will you be selling us off?".
There had to be many powerful women out there who'd pay handsomely to possess one of the few men in the world. They could keep as a slave of sorts, or sell his little swimmers off so as to make a lot of money.
"We plan on keeping ya here for a before selling ya off" Quinn let me know.
For reasons I'd never truly understand villains across all existences simply couldn't resist telling people about their evil plans regardless of how stupid it was to do that. But I couldn't dwell on that for long as Harley came over to me, giggled, and sat astride my lap as she grabbed onto my shoulders. She then grabbed my face and kissed me hard and passionately whilst doing her best to drive her crotch into my groin.
"Mista J would be so mad at yooooou..." Harley said between some more giggles, "he didn't like no one touching me".
She giggled a lot more as she began wrapping her legs around my waist, and spent her time dry humping me. I was dressed in casual clothing so I could feel her through my clothes, and she felt good.
"You're a twisted little harlot aren't you?" I said.
To my surprise, it was Ivy who burst out laughing upon hearing that. Harley turned to face the plant lady and stuck her tongue out at her friend in a brattish display. Then Harley stood up and stretched before leaning in close so that her breasts were all up in my face.
"Hey, stud my eyes are all the way up here!" she said.
Another man in my situation might be scared at this point, but I was in complete control here. I could switch forms, break my bindings, and kill both of these women in a blur of motion if I chose. Or I could just use my mental powers. Heck, I was strong enough as a human to break my way out. This meant I had no reason to panic and could enjoy myself.
"No offence to your eyes" I replied, "But the view down here is better, although it could be even better".
Miss Quinn was not offended. If anything she seemed happy.
"Well if you want to see them so badly!" she said while standing up straight again and revealing her breasts before bending over so that they were next to my face "There you go!".
Her breast were simply amazing, and I felt so glad that I'd decided to let the bad girls abduct me.
I did react a little in what could be considered fear when she suddenly she pulled out a knife and grabbed me by the shirt pulling me closer to her, but I was in no real danger. She reached behind me and cut the tape that had been binding my hands together.
"You can touch, just don't run or Ivy will stop you" Harley threated.
Her friend glared at me, however, I didn't see much of that as the crazy bitch was soon straddling me as she had been before.
"Somebodies more than a little excited!" she said with a grin as she began to grind herself against my crotch "and it's not so little if you know what I mean".
She leaned in and gave me another kiss while she rubbed her hands down my chest. When they reached my belt she stood up again so that she could undo the belt, pull down my trousers and then remove my black boxer shorts, and once she did that she spent some time simply staring at my erection.
"Wow, you are a big boy aren't you" the insane bitch praised "I'd forgotten how large they can get".
She kneeled down and began to lick my cock, teasing the tip of it with her tongue to start with. I then gasped in pleasure when suddenly her whole mouth was around my cock and she began rather expertly sucking me off.
After far too little time spent doing that she got up once again and started to remove her leather shorts. She was not wearing any underwear and she'd styled her public hair into what I assumed to be a smile.
Before I could look more she lowered herself on to my cock. She felt so warm while pressed into me and when she started to ride my cock she did so frantically. It was a pity that I couldn't take her as a companion. Alas, she was too unstable and given her track record, no one in my group would ever trust her. Sure I had perks to ensure loyalty to me, but since Harley was so unpredictable the perk might not make her manageable.
On the subject of unpredictability, she suddenly stopped and lifted herself off of me before she turned around and bent over giving me an incredible view of her ass and pussy before she lowered herself on to my cock again. She leaned her head back putting it on my shoulder and from this angle I could see her amazing breasts bouncing up and down as she moved. I reached around her and grabbed them squeezing them in his hands.
"Don't be shy" she encouraged "Give them a good playing with, the girls have missed man hands".
As I did my best to enjoy her breasts she began riding me some more. Soon she was screaming out hysterically as she rode me faster and faster. Before long I could feel that I was about to cum and that she was getting close as well. Her moans were getting louder and louder, I wasn't sure how much longer I could hold on so I risked using my powers to make her cum bu increasing the amount of pleasure she was feeling. Then when I felt myself about to finish I let go and she slowed her pace as I shot my load inside her.
Once I went soft inside her she sat there for a moment before she pulled herself off of me and grabbed her clothes.
"Thanks for that stud!" she said before leaving.
I looked over at Ivy.
"Would you like a turn" I offered "I should be ready to go again soon".
I was really enjoying myself right now as both of the women here were sexy as hell and wanted me, even if Ivy was placing it cool, and while they were still psychotic criminals who had done horrible things in the past, right now I just didn't care.
Such concerns went totally out the window as soon as Ivy's green outfit, that some resembled a one-piece bathing suit, suddenly fell to the floor and all I could do was stare at her amazing body as she went and sat down on the nearby bed.
"Go stud show her the same good time you showed me!" Harley said as she re-entered the room, carrying a bottle of some drink "If you do a great job maybe we'll put on a show for you later".
As I moved over to the bed Harley Quinn went and sat down on the chair I'd just vacated and she seemed much more interested in watching than Ivy had. I didn't think that even for these two that something like this was normal, but since I would the first man they'd seen in the flesh since the plague had run its course, I could understand them going a bit wild. As for me well I might not get another chance to do both of these women in one evening even with access to the entire DC multiverse.
"I normally don't care much for men" admitted Ivy "But it has been a while and all gardeners need seed".
Rather than reply to that I leaned in and kissed her lips before working my way down her neck I remembered at this point that her lips were dangerous, but nothing happened so I figured that the deadly lips were something she could control.
She seemed to enjoy the attention as I gave her breasts some licks and kisses as I worked my way down between her legs. I did my best to massage her clit and as I did I could hear her moaning and this let me know that my foreplay was going well.
Ivy actually screamed as my tongue explored her pussy making her more than wet enough for what would happen next. Still, I didn't stop licking her out right away as I hadn't fully recovered yet, and she had a strange taste that I figured was somewhat like mint, only it had some fruitiness to it as well.
"You should ride him" the clown girl who was watching us encouraged "We don't want to tire him out too much".
I glanced over at Harley who was still sitting in the chair and now a hand down her shorts. She was openly pleasuring herself while watching her best friend crawl on top of me. When I stopped looking at Quinn I focused on Ivy who now had her green cunt hovering over my cock. She was making me wait for a little, trying to show who she thought was in control here, before she finally lowered herself on to me. Her cunt felt normal enough considering that she was partly a plant, that part of her was all animal at least in the way it felt.
"Hey Ivy imagine if we both got pregnant after this," said the crazy bitch in the room.
That simply wasn't possible as I used very effective birth control as for the woman sitting on me she didn't reply to this. Instead, she began to bob up and down, her pussy doing its best to milk my cock, and I knew that I wouldn't last long so I simply laid back and let the supervillainess do all the work while trying not to cum too quickly.
She rode me until I was too flaccid to stay inside her, and once she was done, she got up off me and went to get some of Harley's drink. This was when I made my move. I brought the 29th phaser out of the Asgardian Armoury attachment to the Cosmic Warehouse.
Once I had stunned both women, acting before they could do anything about it, I got dressed and used the door to this room to access the Cosmic Warehouse so that I could grab a few things. I needed something to take a DNA sample from both women as they were interesting people and they would have interesting genes.
After that, I went about liberating the other men who'd been brought here against their will by different female crooks. Since I could move so fast that anyone seeing me would only make out a blur, if that, and because I had a phaser, it wasn't much work to disable all the female baddies and then to collect some DNA. It helped that they were all rather distracted.
I took down Catwoman, the professional stuntwoman Roxanne Sutton who later became the thrill-seeking criminal Roxy Rocket, as well as some other crooks, before opening a portal back to Wayne Manor for the guys, all of whom seemed to be in one piece.
The last thing I needed to do now before heading home for some well-deserved rest was to contact the all-female Justice League of this world so that they could come here to collect all the villans. Then I could go get some sleep.