Self Insert chapter 7: Sometime you've got to fight
First, to all my fans I am sorry this has taken forever to put to text but I have been exceedingly busy for the last couple of years working usually over full time to cover my bills while also being a part-time student at MSU. I have had a lot of problems to deal with and fanfiction had to take a back-seat to more pressing matters. That being said I am finally able to have some time to work on my own fiction while having a somewhat stable job schedule ahead.
The other reason I had stopped updating this is that for a while there was someone very special in my life and I felt guilty trying to write a semi-romantic self-insert when I wanted to have a relationship with her, especially as Britanny canonically has been married for years. Long story short the girl and I didn't work out as she had lied to me for years and I figured that this is a fictional story with fictional characters and even if I do insert myself into the universe of Gold Digger it is still and AU and if I respect the characters as Fred Perry had made them then I am doing no wrong especially since the DVD and comics are two separate universes.
Now on with the story.
When last we talked dear readers I was being carried off by a super-affectionate werecheetah after laying the smack-down on the dreaded Armeggedon automation, and here is where we find me about half-conscious and about ready to completely nod off as Britanny had me lifted up in her arms like I was some sort of pet. I would have argued about the image it made but I didn't mind, Britanny is very persuasive, and I kind of was enjoying it.
"You feeling okay muffin?" Brit smiled as she laid me down back at out sort of "base camp" next to the pool used to teleport me to Armeggedon moments ago. "You've been pushing yourself kinda hard lately." She smiled and kissed me on the lips. "Nothing a little cheetah loving won't fix though."
"Thanks Cheets." I replied as I rubbed her at the back of the head behind the ears and under the chin like a kitten. She was purring in seconds and blushing with embarrassment.
"Awe stop that." Britanny chuckled as she purred. "It's too much." As Britanny's whole body was shaking with her deep throbbing purrs, a certain continuous pain in the neck decided to butt in and spoil the moment…again.
"Good grief you two can't you wait like five minutes? We have a giant monster robot bent on the destruction of the whole world out there and all you two seem to do when you are together is go at it like teenagers at prom night." Penny Pencer yelled as she fumed about the room.
"Penny what in the world is your problem?" Brianna asked getting into the other woman's face. "Ever since you joined us on this adventure you've acted like you've got a briar bush up your butt and not once have you said thank you or been the least bit appreciative of anything anyone else has done, especially Alex who just saved all of Atlantis and put that stupid kaiju Gyphon beast on ice while all you did was point to a freaking computer node for someone else to destroy."
"Wow Bri what did you put in your cereal?" Gina as she blinked for a few seconds. "Never seen you act that way before."
"Yea especially about your sister's boyfriend. You have something to share with us hem?" Penny said getting right back into Brianna's face.
Brianna closed her eyes for a second, stood straight, took a deep breath and nearly glared Penny to death.
"Yes Alex is Brit's boyfriend, I acknowledge that fact, but do you know what else he is Ms. Pencer? He's my friend." Brianna emphasized pressing her thumb to her chest. "He's been the nicest and most considerate person I have ever met in my life to me and treated me like a person from the moment we met. Do I tease him, maybe flirt a little more than I should to rile him up? Of course I have and probably will again, but for all my teasing he has always treated me with kindness, respect, and made sure to treat me like a person and talks to me like I have value for being me."
This retort made Penny swallow hard.
"When I feel down he talks with me, when I need someone to talk weapons and tech he always knows exactly who would be able to help my designs, heck even just gives me toys to play with from all the characters he turns into and encourages me to find things that make me happy. Would I like to be more than friends? Maybe I don't know but he is my friend and one of the few I have and he makes my sister happy by just being who he is so Pencer put a sock in it. If the two of them want to get personal after what we all have been through I say let them as they earned it. What hasn't been earned is your attitude so grow the heck up."
The whole of the group was awestruck as Brianna relaxed a bit and smiled a crooked smile at Brit and I…as we both were flabbergasted at the sight.
"Wow Bri I uh…"
"Yea what he said" Britanny added.
"Well we are friends right, and besides Penny needs to pull that stick out of her butt before someone pulls it out and beats her upside the head with it."
"As interesting as that was, we are no closer to finding a way to permanently stop Gyphon or returning the artifacts of the Kyrn to Prince Stripe." Princess Tyr said as she surveyed the still trapped robot through the portal well.
"Indeed, while this 'Superman' you became did stop Gyphon, he wasn't able to defeat him." Stripe said as he looked at the well with worry.
"And that is why you should be thankful you have me on this endeavor." Gina piped in as she held a small control device. "See while you were dealing with Mr. Roboto out there I was researching the great library of Shangrila and I think I may have an idea on how we can permanently stop that thing and save the world…but we're going to have to go to back to Atlanta as I'm going to need your help on this one Brianna and we will need my materials from the house."
"Fair enough." Brianna said as she stretched her back. "Besides I definitely need some time with Genn after all this mess."
"So what exactly happened to you Cheets?" I said as I got to my feet.
"Oh you know the usual." Cheetah said as she happily held me tight to her. "Gina got shot to a secret sanctuary hidden in the Himalayan mountains, fell in love with a librarian monk, had a make-out session with his lost ex, got me pulled into a fight with her for her wounded honor, and on top of that Brianna nearly burned down the library when a bunch of monsters from this secret universe inside of the library got out and she used incendiary rounds on them….so I say interesting but not nearly as interesting as your day."
As Gina activated the device she had a BOOM-tube like portal opened and Gina led myself, Brit, Bri, and Stripe through.
"Fascinating device Gina, what is it?" Stripe asked as he found us all now at the Digger's mansion in Atlanta Georgia.
"It's a light gate generator Stripe. While I had a prototype designed worked on for years I was able to fine-tune it based on the BOOM-Tube tech and designs from…and I can't believe I'm saying this….Bifrost Alex shared with me."
"I have no idea what you are talking about, but if it gets us answers to the questions we have then allow me to join you." Stripe said as he followed Gina and Brianna into the rip in the fabric of space and time.
Britanny though grabbed me tightly and I had the…well not uncomfortable but certainly unfamiliar sensation of feeling her rock-hard muscles against my back and giggally womanmellons around my head.
"Come on muffin let's get back home so you can enjoy some Cheetah special TLC." I could feel her whole body vibrating as she was purring.
"I'm so looking forward to that." I said in an almost zombie like state as the super awesome werecat babe clung to me as we passed into the vortex.
Instantaneously we were transported from Atlantis to Atlanta as we found ourselves in one of the main areas of the Digger's mansion.
"I don't know about the rest of you but I need to get some sleep." Brianna yawed as she stretched her arms high and arched her back. "I'm nearly too tired for nookie at this point. Call me if you need anything blown up."
"Right…anyway Stripe welcome to our humble abode and please make yourself at home." Gina said as she gathered her books and headed off to the library. "I have to do some serious studying and see if I can find anything on how to permanently stop Gryphon now that he's part of that massive machine."
"Here allow me to help you." Stripe said as he assisted Gina gathering all the books that had fallen to the floor being thrown through the portal.
"Why thank you. Nice to have one gentleman around here." Gina huffed smugly as the two headed to the library. I was going to retort her commented when I felt a large fuzzy hand on my shoulder.
"Oh you bet it is sis…." Cheetah said quickly escorting me off to the gym and locking the door behind her. "Too bad you don't know the first thing about *muff*"
The last bit of Britanny's statement was cut short by me jumping up and kissing her on the lips.
"Sour grapes are for later kitten." I smirked doing my best to be as confident as I could. Britanny almost laughed at the absurdity of 5'9" me being that cocky in front of 7' tall her.
"Oh and what is the menu now muffin?" Britanny purred as we headed for the mats. Her tail being held high and she almost skipping with each step.
"You my dear. Starting with several long sips on your lips, followed by stroking you like a spoiled housecat." My wordplay was hardly refined and my diction lacking, but hey I was trying my best with limited experience and wanting to give my best performance possible.
"Well this kitty is no housecat pal. You think you can tame this jungle beast?" Britanny said as her voice turned deep trying to put some sort of a roar into her teasing…but instead sounded like she was just purring like a kitten.
"I'm ready if you are." I as I got close to her and felt her furry lips on my own. She was far stronger than me in her hybrid form, but she seemed to approve what she felt as her hands moved over my back and we began to undress eachother.
What followed next was several minutes of teasing make-out as we first had uninterrupted time to spend together and get to know eachother on a more intimate level.
"Alex…good gach this feels so good…but I just…." Britanny said as we got really close to getting really close to eachtoher.
"Yea Brit…you okay?" I asked stopping dead in my tracks. "I'm not pushing to fast am I?"
"No I…I'm just…Alex I love you and I want this to be right and I…" Britanny couldn't articulate what she what she wanted to say so I just stopped what I was doing and held her. "I mean it's really good and I like you so much and you've done so much… but I don't feel right going all the way right now…if that makes sense I mean?"
I smiled and hugged her tight and kissed her head. "Brit I never want you to feel pressured into anything we do. Not now and not ever. If and when we are both comfortable being that close it will be right and if you don't feel it's right or a good idea I will happily wait for you for when it is."
"You don't think I'm a tease or anything leading you on? I mean heck after you took on that thing by yourself so many times most guys would expect some sort of reward." I looked into the most hypnotic green eyes I had ever seen, put my hand behind her head, smiled, and kissed her right under her bangs.
"Brit you are the kindest and most awesome women I have ever known and I never thought you were leading me on. And I didn't do all those things because I was expecting some tail…if you'll pardon the expression." That got her to chuckle. "I did it because I had the power to help, it was the right thing to do, and they needed help. Whatever and wherever you and I go it's not because you're a prize I get for saving the day but rather you and I care about and respect eachother to want oneanother to be happy and only with what we both are comfortable with."
She eased herself into the crook of my arm…a pretty interesting achievement for a woman so much bigger in build that I.
"You mean it babe?" Britanny said.
"Of course I mean it. What I've always wanted and hoped for is love, not just action with a smoking hot woman but an emotional attachment and relationship with someone who is a partner and that takes time and effort so when we both know it's the right time we can go that far."
"Not many men like you in this world Alex. Most would get upset with me and think me some sort of tease or skank or…I don't know. You, but you care enough not to and that means a lot. Especially how you respect me as a person." She kissed me on the lips at that.
"Yea I guess I'm just old fashioned like that…" I said as I stuck my hand into my pocked and felt a familiar metallic object I had forgotten about for a long time in my fingers. I felt it a bit more and pulled it out as I looked into my palm.
"What's that you have there?" Britanny asked as she pressed her head to mine and took a look.
"This? This is a gift from a very very good friend of mine who cares a lot about me." The item in question was a series of plastic beads held together by metal wires connecting ten in a sequence followed by a large metal placeholding marking each set of ten that formed a loop of five metal coin-sized placemarkers with a trail of four beads coming down from the first starter placemarker which ended in a cross and on each of the coin-sized metal pieces was a face. "It's called a Rosary. It's a counter of prayers becoming one big prayer with a specific meaning at each part."
"Must be someone very special to have given it to you." Britanny said as she snuggled next to me. "Alex I know this isn't your world and you have family and friends that probably miss you dearly, so if after all this crazy mess you find a way to see them again promise to visit often and bring me with you to that place."
"Without a doubt Brit." I smile back as we cuddled together for a bit. "Though you probably would have to explain to all the fans why you are still single….and don't have a kid or ether vents in your body….."
"What in the name of Charlie Tuna are you talking about Alex?" Brit said as she looked at me like I was going out of my mind…more so than usual.
"Complete honesty time?" I asked to which Britanny nodded. "Okay…I already told you that in my world you are comic and cartoon characters, well in the comics about ten to fifteen years ago you got married and about seven years ago you had a daughter. The whole adventure with Dreadwing was just the first in a decades-long series of stories and all of it without me being anywhere in it."
"Okay I guess that makes sense afterall. But like you said this isn't the comics and you are most certainly here." Britanny said as she nuzzled me and drapped herself over me. "And you are also nice and warm." She joked.
"You're warmer." I said as I laid back and let an overly affectionate werecat cuddle me like a stuffed toy.
"Awe thanks. And Alex, whatever happens we decide on this together okay? This isn't the comics and you and I will write our own story together." At this point I almost felt smothered. "Besides it's not like I would even meet that guy anyway right….right?"
"You kinda did…In the comic you married Stripe because the writer wanted to get your romantic story out of the way asap and the two of you were getting heavy after just meeting for a few minutes."
"Are you joking?" Britanny looked me dead in the eyes. "I went to bed with a guy I just met after a few minutes? What the heck was the writer thinking that I'm so incapable of controlling my emotions that I just jump the first cute catguy I meet? Okay yes he's a good man and yes there was a possible attraction but come on." At first she looked pissed…then started to laugh at herself and then broke down into a series of giggles.
I couldn't help myself I had to join in as we laid on our backs on the mat.
"I mean what did the guy who wrote this have a Disney obsession?" Britanny asked.
"No clue, but it is hilarious in retrospect."
"And you…*stifled giggles*….fought a freaking dragon to protect and then avenge me, and on top of that single handedly faced a giant monster to protect people and the most we feel comfortable with is heavy petting." Britanny said as she was now laughing her head off. I couldn't help myself as it was the most endering and wonderful expression of pure joy I had felt in far too long a time.
"I guess we're more real than comic stories then." I said cleaning the moisture from my eyes.
"I'm as real as you are muffin." Brit said as she kissed my nose.
It was at this point a mature female voice was heard at the doorway as she too started laughing. "Awe you two are so sweet together."
"MOM!?" Britanny yelled in shock as she covered her slightly unclothed body with her hands. I was busy throwing a shirt over Brit's chest so that the young lady had some dignity to her.
"Relax Brit. I'm actually quite happy at you two." Yes Julia Diggers, future Arms Master of Jade current Weapons Master and the matriarch of the household had just caught Brit and me in what was supposed to be a serious make-out session which got interrupted.
"Wha? Really?" Britanny smiled. "Awe thanks mom…."
"Uh how much did you see exactly?" I asked…worried I was going to have to spring up and avoid getting cleaved or impaled by Julia's rapier.
"Enough to know that a certain young man respects my daughter to not push her beyond her limits, and that you both had the good sense to wait till you got to meet one-another's families." Julia smiled. "This also means that I will have the pleasure of a late-night fight session." Julia charged at me with her sword and thankfully I did have enough time to react as I was able to pin her blade, kick her in the stomach, and throw her across the room…only to see her effortlessly land on her feet with a smug smile on her face.
"MOTHER!" Brit yelled.
"What, consider this just a sparring session." Julia said as she took a look at the form I had used to throw her. "And a taste of the challenges that you'll have to face if my mother ever hears about this young man."
"Are you planning to talk me to defeat or are we getting on with this?" I asked as Julia and Britanny got a good look at my new form. Head to toe in yellow and orange plate and chainmail armor with a .50 cal desert eagle on my hip and half of my mask covered in black there is only one guy who I could think of who came to mind who could end this fight ASAP and let Brit and I get back to cuddling….and not wake up the whole house doing it.
"Very well we will make this….quick depending on how good you are." Julia smiled as she stood as if she wasn't going to attack me.
"I am the best and call me Deathstroke." I had hoped that DC's supersolider merc would finish this sparing session soon and not get distracted
"First Deadpool and now Deathstroke? Are you going to distract me with more crazy…." Before Julia could complete her sentence she found herself having to repel a series of highly precise and super-strong jabs which flew almost too fast for her to even notice till they hit.
"No. I am nothing like that chattering idiot." I said cold as ice and sharp as flint. My physical reaction was equally to the point as Julia was physical shaken trying to keep up with Slade's swordsmanship and her rapier was only barely able to hold off my broadsword.
"Apparently.." Julia smiled actually enjoying herself greatly. She ducked under my swing and landed one right in my gut.
While that stung like crazy for a moment, I still was able to grab her wrist and twist trying to pin her into a wrist lock. It took far more effort than I was expecting as Julia is one tough mother and her half-giantess genes gave her an edge on raw power. Thankfully not so much on the reflexes and regeneration as I was able to duck under her round-house and sweep-kicked her off of her feet. This happened so fast that Julia wasn't able to catch herself and fell flat on her back. As I thought that I was about to end this match though, she actually caught me off-guard with a double kick to the face as she did a hand-spring up and sliced across my mid-section with her rapier while pivoting on one foot and ended her combo with a side-kick to my exposed wound. Julia then attempted to push her advantage with a quick thrust of her blade, only to find that I parried her blow with my own sword and we found ourselves staring each other in the face as sharpened super-strong steel nearly close enough to slice both of our heads off.
"You're good, but I've seen better." Julia smiled like a maniac as she looked into my one eye.
"So have I lady." I coldly replied as I slide to her side, guiding our swords far from one another, and then dropped down and pop-kicked her in the side of the knee with enough force to cause her to lose her balance. When she quickly retaliated by pivoting on one foot and trying a haymaker to my face with her sword brought around to behind her to act as a counter-balance, I grabbed her wrist, threw one leg around towards her head as if I finish with a kick. But as Julia ducked I smirked as she fell into my trap and caught her neck with my leg and brought her to the ground by kicking off the ground with my other foot, hitting her in the Achilles tendon, and twisted my body with her now completely unbalanced and her now trapped with my sword held across her wrist, one of my legs over her throat, the other under her breasts, and my legs crossed preventing her from moving her arms well enough to escape.
"Had enough." I coldly asked, doing my best to keep from being thrown across the room as Julia's strength was far greater than any normal woman was and I wasn't sure how much mine compared to her's.
"For this warm-up? Perhaps I am." Julia's strength was testing my own this entire time and I was not interested in seeing who was the better in this form. "But let us take this up a notch shall we?"
I seriously did not like the tone of her voice and the idea of a very excited Arm's Master facing me was not on my list of things to do tonight. To my lack of surprise, for many reasons including the fact that I wanted to get back to cuddling a certain sexy lycanthrope, she did up the difficulty with a quick jab to my ankle. This was an attempt to divert my body's mass to give her more room to move and thankfully I didn't fall for it as she slide away from me and was able to slip her steel blade within inches of my throat. I felt nothing to this close breath to death as Deathstroke's inhuman reaction time and thought processes kept the razor sharp edge away from my body with ease but any human would have been sliced to bits.
"Are you toying with me?" Julia asked, slightly annoyed and somewhat impressed.
"Kids toy, I observe." I answered as coldly as a machine would.
"Then observe this." Julia smirked callously as she concentrated a strike on the floor powerful enough to break through the covering and spray bits of debris into my face. I could see each and every one of the shards float slowly in front of me brushed the projectiles out the way with a pass of my blade held with only one hand.
"This is child's play." I said as I attempted to clear my line of sight and guard for another assault, only to find that the whole attack was in itself a distraction.
"Maybe, but if it works." Julia smiled as she had completely escaped my notice and had her rapier mere inches from my inner thigh aimed right for the femoral artery. The blade's ability to penetrate my armor being unimportant in my mind, I admired just how easily I had been caught off-guard and would have been brought to my knees if her half-giantess strength would break through my defenses. Regeneration or not I was defeated in this match.
"Well played." I replied.
"Very well played, though I'm guessing if this had we decided to go more than just sparing things would be…different." Julia smiled as she sheathed her rapier. "You best me in speed and your recovery from my blows can only be explained by a healing factor similar to those of that Deadpool character."
"Your point?" I said, still very much in the form of Deathstroke.
"Don't insult me by claiming ignorance my dear." Julia chided me with a smirk. "If I had thrust my blade into your leg I bet it would only have pinned that limb while removing my sword from my hand. I am not as spry as I was years ago, but I am just as sharp and I saw that you were moving far too quickly for any normal human. In fact I would say you would have reflexes quicker than most lycans I have faced and trained."
"Very well." I smirked under my mask. "I'm going to guess that you are going to ask who exactly this character is right?"
"Yes, but that is only part of my concern." Julia said as she pulled her blade away from my leg and allowed me to get to my feet. "You said that I will eventually become the Armsmaster of Jade, a title of great honor and astounding responsibilities which will require me to be at my absolute best to care for all of the realm of Jade. Take off your mask if you don't mind, I like to see whom I am speaking with."
I pulled off my mask and revealed the strong features, salty hair, and one-eye of Slade Wilson.
"Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke the Terminator."
"Lovely title." Julia sarcastically said as she pondered her words. "But back to my point though is that I will need you to push me to my very edge if I am going to be anywhere near ready to face every other weaponsmaster."
"Why me? Can't Jade itself offer a wide range of foes who each could test your abilities?" I was terse, but had a point as the whole world of Jade was a huge RPG dimension.
"Yes, but I know and have faced them all, or at least most of them." Julia said as she slide her blade into its scabbard. "And so far you have only spared with me, but I need to be pushed further and for you not hold back. Can you do that?"
Her face was completely straight and absolutely serious as she said this.
"Without question. But if I do this then you are going to have to face every single fighter I can become even if that individual surpasses what you know you can do." I said going back to being me.
From serious to sadistic smile in less time than it takes my cat to blink.
"Correction, what I can do now." Julia said proudly.
"Hey what am I then chopped liver?" Brit huffed. "If muffin here spends all his time training with you then what time will he have for me huh Mom?"
"Oh don't worry I will make sure you two have plenty of time to get to spend together, and time to give me some cute grandbabies sometime, and I have other things to do beyond train. But I will unquestionably need every edge I can get to ensure I survive that tournament." Julia smiled at her daughter. "So after you help stop whatever it is that is threatening the earth this time you and I will have to start an extremely intense work-out schedule Alex and I expect Brit will be joining us."
"Awe thanks mom." Britanny said as she proceeded to wrap me in the biggest hug I had ever had.
"Why am I getting very uncomfortable right now?" I said as I tried to think of the ramifications of Julia's ideas.
"Oh relax muffin." Britanny started purring a storm as she started rubbing her cheeks across my ears and feeling my muscles. "Oh even without being super-powered you got some very nice muscles." At this point cheetah was rubbing her big hands over my shoulders and abs. "Definitely need to make sure to keep these in good order."
I shivered very new to the sensation I was experiencing now.
"Oh you are so cute." Britanny giggled as she saw my reaction and proceeded to kiss me on top of my bald head.
"Well I will let you two get back to what you are doing." Julia smiled as she laid her blade on your shoulder and began heading for the door. "Before I leave though Alex, while I am deeply moved by your excellent character and how you respect my daughter she will always be my little girl and if you hurt her then I will find a way to make you pay for it."
"Duly noted." I responded as Julia left the room.
"Okay so parent number one approval rating is up, so that's good." I said to Brit as Julia was out of hearing range.
"Yep, now all we need is daddy to like you more…and meet your parents, meet your family, find a way to get into your world from ours….and somehow save the world from an end-of-time badguy while not getting killed." Britanny's optimism was refreshing and genuine. Just what I needed to hear.
I sighed letting the weight of what was going on finally sink in.
"Hey we stopped a wanna be time-traveling dragon from destroying the universe, and that armagedon creep is on ice so we at least have some breathing room." Brit smiled as we sat down on the mat together and cuddled for a bit. "And I know that somehow, someway we will stop him, save Atlantis, and then maybe have some time to see if there are any more werecheetahs maybe?"
The towering beauty before me flashed the most adorable smile I had ever seen and I was absolutely captivated by her genuine sweetness.
"Oh my gosh your whole face is bright red." She lowered her face and kissed me right on my bare noggin before wrapping me in a hug…which caused me to be pressed between her extremely powerful arms and her very firm breasts. "I have an idea."
"Uh huh…" I said in a state of half dreaming and fully aroused.
"Well as we are a real item, and since we need to get used to being close to eachother…lets wrestle." Brittany's smile was so big at this idea that I was struck with fear for a second as I had to move myself out of her hug.
"Wait what?' I was so dumbstruck that I was staring up at the woman of my dreams with my mouth wide open and with zero idea how to respond. Britanny, however, responded in the manner very much as one would expect an uber sexy, sweet, and affectionate gal revealed by Fred Perry in his comic and movie to respond: her smile grew extremely wide as she flashed her very sharp teeth in my face.
Before I could collect my thoughts I found myself pinned on my back with an amorous werecat looking me right in the eye and my limbs locked under the weight of 307 lbs of muscle and fur with my chin very close to her rather large and very prominent lady bumps. At this point I wasn't sure who was shaking more, me out of nervousness or Britanny's purring.
"Okay now Alex let's see if you can get out of this hold." The towering mass of excessively happy werekitty said. "And I do have a few rules I would like to try with this."
"Okay, what rules would that be my dear?"
"One we do this without you using any of your alternate forms, and second I will promise to not force a win by my super strength." She said shifting her smile to an honest grin.
"Okay I can live with that...um so what exactly do I do in this position?" I tried to keep my eyes focused on the deep green orbs of my partner.
"Well you can stand there admiring the view, or you can try to shift your leg around my waist for leverage, shift your arms under mine, and then try to role me." I followed her advice, while getting a good feel of her exceedingly powerful frame. "But since I know that you are going to try that you will have to try something to get me to stop holding you in place and I can't think of a single thing that will get past my impenetrable…."
She wasn't able to complete her boost as I rose my upper body up and kissed her right on the nose. While not nearly as quick as a werecat, I am naturally gifted with remarkable reflexes and the sudden shift in my position and seemingly unexpected speed caused Brit to blink and visibly jolt back as I torqued our bodies so that I was sitting on top of her midsection and had her arms caught in my hands.
"Like that." I admit I was gloating at having Britanny on her back and looking into those impossibly green eyes. My hand barely were able to reach around her powerful arms and my legs were spread across her abdomen where I could feel the power radiating from her tight muscles that seemed about ready to rip right through the air and would have pinned me back down in seconds.
"Exactly like that cutie." Britanny smirked as she was extremely impressed with my reflex speed. "But what are you going to do to stop me from pushing you off of me and squeezing you till you are red all over?"
My response was immediate and absolutely disabled Britanny: I slide down and started rubbing her tummy like a spoiled housecat would receive.
"Oh you cad." The sexy lycan cried out as she was reduced to a fit of giggles. Her tail was twitching happily as I teased the overly powerful abs and tried to avoid getting whacked in the face from an overly happy catgirl. "So you like to fight dirty huh?"
Britanny's smirk was so devilish, but was almost destroyed as she couldn't stop from giggling thus rendering it to a true smile.
"I try to fight to win, especially when I have a goal in mind." I didn't dare stop tickling her for too long, just let up enough to ensure that she was actually enjoying herself and that I wasn't going too far.
"Well…(stiffeled giggling) I can't fault you on your enthusiasm." The lovely lycan said as she started flaling her arms about. Sadly this bought of play was terminated due to another unforeseen interloper with bright red hair…or rather fur.
Unseen and completely silent this particular visitor entered the room and sat down between Britanny's legs and proceeded to bat and the spasming tail in front of her nose.
"Hey what the?" Britanny said as she sat up and I moved off from on top of her. "Why you little."
"Meow" yep there pawing at Britanny's tail was a 10 lbs. tigerstripped bundle of fuzz and cuddles with green slit eyes and a cute little nose who was acting all the world like a proper southern lady wanting attention.
"Awe Lily, come here my little bundle of fuzzy cuddle snuggles." Yes I said this as I picked up my attention deprived kitty and hugged her in my arms. I laid back down next to Brit and she started to rub Lily's head, and wrapped an arm around me.
"You know little kitty, as one female cat to another I should resent you and probably not enjoy having you around." Britanny said wrapping one arm around me and continuing to assist in lauding my kitty with attention. "But I guess I can get along with you if I have to."
The smaller feline female's response was to start nomming on Brit's hand and wagging her tail around.
"Plus I bet that you will be experience for how to actually be a mom to werekitty cubs." Brit tolerated the playful biting of the kitty in my arms till Lily decided she wanted to be on my shoulder and then jumped down on the mat and roll around so her tummy was exposed.
"Well we have been a little preoccupied dear." I said the Brit as I started to try and show both felines the attention they were due. "And how do you think I know just were to please you so well?"
In a few moments all three of us were laying on the mat as I was keeping my two lovely female companions happy with rubs on the back of the head, ears, under the chin, and tummy.
"Well I won't complain."
"Neither will the viewers." Yet another female voice said at the door, and this one was completely human and holding a video camera in her hands.
"Gina what in the name of the patron saint of chocolate chip cookies are you doing?" Britanny leapt up and nearly tackled her sister to the ground while shifting into her animal form.
"Oh relax." Gina's forced smile and terrified chuckling was evidence she almost was going to piss herself. "I just thought that, in complete scientific curiosity of course, how pampering you would be close to pampering a kitty."
Britanny didn't believe this for a second, and neither did I, so a rather irritated and extremely powerful werecat had pinned down her sister and looked like she was about ready to use Gina as a scratching post.
"Okay Brit you made your point." I said as I started rubbing her up and down her back and head. Immediately her muscles relaxed and her tail shot straight into the air as she raised her butt into the air and started purring right into Gina's face.
"Oh babe that feels so good…" Britanny said in a very growly roar voice, but since she was in the form of a super-sized cheetah I was amazed that she could talk at all.
"Uh so yea…could I please get free now?" Gina asked as she tried to lift Brit off of her struggling to push up from under Brit's arms. The older of the Digger sisters was trying to life with all of her might but was so unable to do so that it was somewhat comical and I would have tried to see how out of her mind with pleasure I could get Britanny at this point….but as we actually had a world-ending disaster on our hands I guided Britanny to roll over on her side and start back on the chin rubs.
"Thank you." Gina said as she stood up and composed herself as best as she could and placed her glasses on. "Now if you are done acting like a spoiled house cat maybe we can actually get back to saving Atlantis from total destruction."
"Oh grow up Gina, not like you wouldn't do exactly what I did." Brit said as she went back to hybrid form. "Man I love full moons, wish I could change all the time like this rather than just once a day."
"There is a way to do that, but darned if I know it." I said as once more I became the appointed affection giver for two rather demanding furry females.
"So anyway what's up?" Brit said looking her sister, who was at this moment collecting herself and a few items she has dropped while operating the camera.
"Well I have some good news, and some bad news to share." Gina deliberated. "Good news is that I two of the artifacts which were not taken by Gyphon and which could destroy him and the machinery of his creation but not the artifacts themselves."
"That's actually awesome." Britanny smiled. "So my super nerd sis actually was usual for something on this adventure."
"Very funny Brit." Gina said in a dead tone. "But the only way that this plan is going to work is if I merge the gem of returning and the crown of Stripe's people and….they don't fit together." Gina said as she looked over her various HUD screens and upgraded 3-D map system.
"Well fat lot of good that does to us then." Brit said. "Any ideas Alex?"
"After that sparing session with your mother and the impromptu play session with you I can honestly say my mind is too preoccupied to try to remember a comic I read about 5 years ago at the latest. Something about some rare element and fighting werewolves or something but that would be about it."
"Well that's a cheery thought." Gina replied as she blinked a few times. "Good news is that you aren't that far off as there is something which can merge the two artifacts together to accomplish what we need, but we need to use the Ether Gate to access a location filled with a pre-hydrogen element known as Hindrum."
Going through a series of screens projected from her glasses, Gina pulled up an image and data file of the exact item of our quest.
"Wait that looks like ezo." I said as I took a careful look at what Gina wanted to share.
"Precisely Alex." Gina confirmed. "The same matter as the Mass Effect tech you used with Commander Shepard is the same as what we need to merge the crown and the gem…sadly though we can't just use your abilities to help us quickly get this job done and rush off to Atlantis."
"And why not miss smarty pants?" Brit asked.
"Because Brit, when Alex shifts forms we lose what he has access to. Remember the bombs back at El Dorado or that staff he gave Stripe? As soon as we need someone other than Shepard the mater goes bye-bye. And on top of that the ezo from his weapons is processed and we need fresh samples."
"So any idea where this Ether Gate is going to be and how do we get the Hindrum/ezo to save the world from total destruction?" Britanny asked.
"As a matter of fact I know exactly where it is going to be and when." A world map was pulled up and a small island in the middle of the Red Sea.
"Farasan Island at the stroke of midnight."
"Good, so when do we leave and what do we pack to find this stuff?" Brit rose to her feet and cracked her knuckles with anticipation.
"I thankfully was able to build a few basic scanning devices able to easily procure samples for us, but there is little to no telling as to what we will find there." At this Gina shut off the holographic display.
"Hasn't stopped us so far." I said getting to my feet. "So how exactly are we going to get there?"
"Funny you should ask that question." Gina smiled as she indicated that we leave the room and head for the elevator to the lab.
Picking up my cat, I followed next to Brit as we entered into the depths of the research and develop part of Gold Digger Industries.
"See Alex while we haven't had a lot of time to do R&D for starships, I decided that it would be in our best interest to at least test and build a more….covert craft for us to use and I found just what we needed thanks to your generous contributions to Brianna's toy collection." Gina said happily as she was almost literally glowing with pride when the doors opened.
"So Alex what do you think?" Gina indicated with her raised left hand as my jaw nearly dropped seeing what she had been working on.
"Is that?" I had to ask with pure wonder at the whole thing.
"Yep. Built exactly to specifications as detailed by you in one of your more brilliant forms." All of our smiles…except for Lily who was asleep in my arms, were huge.
"But how did you get it access to the alloys needed to build it?" I asked as I walked up almost going to touch the gorgeous black craft.
"Oh I have my ways?" Gina smugly answered.
"Okay awesome new ride sis, but you barely had time to make your Ginamobile so how on Earth did you put this together without anyone noticing?" Britanny said as she was looking at her reflection in the shiny black surface.
"I have to be honest I did have help from our other resident super genius, and I will fully admit that I wouldn't' be able to make it without some detailed files of the world this place was originally from since it turns out there is actually a rather important resource located in equatorial Africa this craft required to be built, but thankfully no one lived in proximity so I just had Ace ship a ton of the stuff here from time to time."
"You mean there is a vibranium asteroid in this universe?" I asked in shock.
"Oh indeed there is, but no actual kingdom of Wakanda. Still no idea about any Savage Lands or Dinosaur Island anywhere, but yes this baby is prepped and ready to go, and I have just the man to fly her."
"Excellent. I will go round up Brianna and Stripe and we can be on our way."
The next day, over the Arabian Dessert.
"Are you sure we need to take this scifi tincan?" Ace said as he manned the pilot controls. "My old bird is perfectly fine ge."
"Ace this tincan, as you so eloquently put it, is the most advanced conventional stealth craft in existence with adamentium and vibranium supports and advanced extra-terrestrial modifications." I said as I went over the weapons I had Brianna pack for this mission. M41-A2 pulse Rifles, Cerberus Harrier assault rifles with mods, AJM 9 hand cannons, and a multitude of other items which she was overly happy to try out. The advanced shielding systems she made for her own armor was compensation enough in her book for the hard work.
"Still doesn't mean I like it." Ace said without mallace.
"The BlackBird is completely invisible to any detection system in our section of the galaxy Ace, especially with the stealth drive on as we are unable to be detected even by sight. In your C-130 we would have to be to so low as to be picking sand from our teeth and going at sub mach speed." I countered.
"Yea Ace we really didn't have time to waste here with Atlantis about to be destroyed." Brianna said as she loaded up a Mark X Black Widow Rifle with concentration mod and extended barrel with incenary ammo. "Gina how are we doing on these thermal clips we brought?"
"We have plenty, but we are definitely going to have to build a better manufacturing system for them than our lab. Takes too long and costs to much so we need to make them on an industrial scale somehow." Gina responded as she was working on her Ginamobile.
"Hey what the hell are you people up to?" Shouted a voice over the Blackbird's com. "And why did you have to portal Ace while I'm stuck here doing humanitarian work under the sea?"
"Yo girl chill." Ace said as he turned on the video communicator. "They needed the best pilot to fly this thing and guess who fits the bill?" Ace was super smug saying this as he was getting used to the overworldly nature of the X-Men's aircraft.
"Then let Alex pull a character out of his bum." The enraged female stated.
"Will you put a sock in it Pincer." I finally said having about as much tolerance for bs as Batman has for jokes. "I'm making the drop with Bri, Stripe, Gina, and Brit and you know it." I punctuated this statement by slamming an extended magazine into my A2 pulse rifle and getting a good feel for the weight.
"Here Stripe see how you like the feel of this one." I handed the carbine to him with the safety on.
"Never used a firearm before." The taller and far larger man said he took the weapon in his hands. "I have always been trained to use my body as a weapon or the use of other simple tools."
"Well thankfully for you this girl happened to be developing this little beauties." Brianna smiled as she pulled out a pair of stun battons similar to those of Nightwing. "Give them a try."
As Stripe placed the rifle back on the table and took the new staffs from Brianna he seemed to feel far more accustomed and at ease.
"Wonderful, but I don't see how the glowing effect will do any good." Stripe said, not realizing exactly what he had in his hands.
"That's not a glowing effect Stripe, it's actually…" Before Brianna could finish explaining the stuff function Britanny decided to see what all the fuss was about.
"Hey what is everyone up to?" Cheetah said with a big grin as she walked over right as Stripe turned on his heel and
KAPOP!
"YEOOOUCH!" Instantly Brit was knocked down sprawling on the floor clutching her stomach in pain.
"Britanny!"
"Sis!"
"Oh my word."
"What the hell was that?" Britanny had to take several heavy breaths as she got back on her feet. "That was absolutely fucking painful."
"My most humble and sincerest of apologies Britanny." Stripe immediately replied dropping sticks on the weapon's table and bowing humbly to the injured werecheetah. "I have nor have ever had any desire to injure you by action or inaction and pray you forgive me for this truly horrible accident on my part. I will accept all responsibility and will earnestly make amends in any way I can."
The Kyrn prince was almost at the point of groveling before Brit and was beyond honest in his sincerity to atone for Britanny's injury.
"Relax Stripe it's okay." Britanny smiled as he patted the man's back. "See inhuman regeneration means no harm done." Showing off her midsection (as her usual jacket and pants allow to do so easily with that gap for her abs) there was narry a singed strand of fur to be found. "But tell me what exactly was that thing?"
"The latest in nonlethal hand-to-hand deterrents sis." Brianna said holding both battons up. "See I figured that since we never really want to kill someone that it might be a good idea to use a portable instant stun device such as the ones Alex can use as Nightwing."
"Okay makes sense, but why did that hurt so much when it hit me? Wouldn't those things be set for humans or am I missing something?" Brit scratched her head as Brianna beamed with pride getting to go over her toys with fantastic detail.
"Ah but that is the beauty of this babies." Brianna took one of the weapons in hand and went over the surface detailing the features. "While Nightwing would be fighting normal human thugs, we can't assume who we face is going to be human, lycan, vampire, dwarf, or even a troll so I took a bit of Wayne Tech, a bit of Stark's work, and a little bit of Dr. Doom's weapon library and designed this puppies to modify their output based on who it is they are going to be coming into contact." In a flash the blue electrical stunner was activated.
"When the battle baton is near any target it will be able to determine the badguy's mass, species, and pre-set discharge level for maximum effective discharge. Now with a lycan or other regenerator it will give off a far more powerful discharge and so you will drain the available power source after about 3 hits per baton, but with each successive discharge the pain will be more debilitating so you have a greater chance of survival."
"Excellent. I am still very sorry for injuring you Brit and will be happy to make up for it however I can." Stripe said bowing again to Britanny.
"Hey we are friends and my kitty curiosity got the best of me." Britanny said. "Just promise not to use that on me again."
"Agreed. I think these will make excellent alternatives to your choice Alex as I am loath to kill anyone, even if my own life is at risk." Stripe accepted his gifts gladly and the holster for them Brianna had designed for his belt.
"Doesn't bother me one bit my friend." I said holstering an AJM 9 and a felt a few Sonic Electro Ball Breakers (or SEBB of short). "I respect your value of life and will never ask anyone to violate their conscious on it's sanctity."
"Yea besides we are going to find a source for an element which is going to save the world, not looking to start a war so let's try to do this with as little violence as possible." Britanny added.
"Alright people we are approaching the drop point so let's finish final prep and get ready to launch." Gina said clearing her glasses and grabbing a few things from the table. "And one last group run-down of the plan. Now this jet has exceedingly advanced VTOL capabilities and a modular opening system where multiple bay and launching doors can be opened depending on the needs of the mission so that the internals of the craft re-inforce other structures and re-distribute weight according to which door is opened."
All heads nodded at this.
"Ace you are going to drop us down to nearly the deck as we approach the island. When we reach the target range we are going to open the mid-section bay doors and shoot the Ginamobile Mark 2 out at a speed just below supersonic. If the inertia dampeners are working as they did in the trial run back in Georgia we won't feel the jolt as we use the hover-drive to shoot across the surface of the water and bring the car to a dead stop right in front of the Ether Gate. From there we will hop out, enter the gate, find the Hindrium/Ezo we need, grab it, and then book it out without anyone or thing taking the slightest notice of us."
"Roger that we are startin' the drop now." Ace replied as Gina tested the shielding device again. "You know as much as I hate to admit it I am actually getting to like this bird as I can't pull just about any g's I want and it feels like I am just gliding."
"Sounds good to me Ace." Gina smiled as she liked the increased odds for the same modifications to her car. "Okay everyone loaded and ready?"
"Darn tootin sis." Britanny said as she hopped into the back of the car with me, being the smallest outside of Gina, sandwiched between Britanny and Brianna as Stripe sat shotgun. "Let's do this."
"All systems are green, Ginamobile is ready for launch and hover drive is purring like a kitten." Gina said as she turned on the dash-board videocom. "How are you doing Ace?"
"Handling like a dream." Ace smiled. "Launch is go in 5…4…3…2..1…"
As the last number of the countdown sounded the Ginamobile launched out of the Blackbird with an initial speed of Mach 1.5 and shot across the beach and sea steadily losing speed as we approached Farsan Island.
"Ace how are you doing?" Stripe asked as he was shooting his vision from night air to the screen and back.
"All good, except that launch pinged someone's radar real good." Ace replied looking away from the camera. "No mention of the Blackbird in their chatter, just a care appearing out of nowhere. Seems that Darkboid chick is looking for a remach Alex."
"Damn. Ace you got this?" I asked as I couldn't do a damn thing to help him as the Ginamobile was locked on target and anything that interrupted the airflow would be fatal to most hands.
"No sweat g, this jet got any weapons on it?" Ace asked.
"If you are looking for a missile select or a laser array sadly no, but if you were to drop the invisibility cloak along with activating the scanners at the specific frequency to scramble their radar it might take attention off us and onto you." Gina said while focusing on the upcoming landmass.
"So tell me again, what can this thing do."
"About Mach 8 with near orbital ceiling and directional thrust." Gina replied. "Plus with those inertial dampeners and vibranimum framework the Blackbird surpasses any conventional aircraft. Plus you don't have to refuel since the duel arch reactors have a combined life expectancy of around 2,300 years."
At this Ace's smile was at super-nova levels on par with Britanny at a tuna/chocolate chip factory or Brianna at the sight of He-Man.
"Uh Gina one question…."
"The cassette player right below the screen." Gina smirked knowing that Ace would not enter a dogfight without his blasting soundtrack.
"Remind me to introduce this world to MP3 technology next." I said trying not to get bothered between to exceedingly stunning blonde catgirls with their bodies so close to mine.
"MP what?" Brit asked.
"Pure digitalized music compression. I'll re-invent it later." I said as the Blackbird appeared right in front of the squad of shocked knuckleheads which were about to do a remarkable impersonation of Dick Dastardly and the Vulture Squadron trying to catch Yankee Doodle Pidgeon.
Thankfully unlike the original plan of using hover-mode for hours to get to the island, this method meant everyone was spared from Gina's horrible singing and was only in the car for a grand total of maybe 30 minutes.
"Okay people this is the exact spot where I have calculated the Ether Gate will open in 30 seconds." Gina said as she popped open her scanner. And put on what looked like a supped-up night-vision goggles.
"Or your watch is slow and there it is." Britanny said as before us a massive beam of pure white light shot from the heavens down to us.
"Jinkies that fantastic." Gina beamed with glee as she switched to a camera and started photographing away. "All we've got to do now is go inside this Ether Gate, get the goods, get out using my light-gate generator, and we are in fat city."
"Look at it! It reaches all the way up into the stratosphere." Britanny said in wonder.
"Fantastic." Stripe said in awe.
"Well let's do this." I said as I stepped up and headed into the light.
"Are we sdure we want to do this?" Stripe said to no one in particular.
"According to Gina, this is crucial to her plan to stop Armageddon." Britanny answered with a sigh.
"And it is best to follow her in case something big and ugly attacks her." Brianna added as she shouldered her Harrier.
The other side of the gate was darker than the night we just left and all four of us found ourselves nearly blind.
"Hey Gina where's your flashlight?" Britanny asked as she was was grouping into the blackness. "Opps sorry muffin." Britanny's grasping had aimed for something that was quite personal, and while I love that werecheetah survival trumped petting.
"I dropped it as I was getting it out. Give me a minute." Gina said scrambling on the ground and rustling leaves and grass.
"Uh guys we may not have a minute." Brianna said as she popped the flashlight on the rifle on.
"Oh crap everyone we need to leave now." Britanny said in a voice so filled with terror I was about ready to bolt.
"What are you talking about?" Gina said finally getting her light on.
"Shut up!" Britanny nearly screamed. "The hairs on my hackles are on end and something is stalking us, is about ready to pounce on us and I think we need to leave ASAP if not sooner."
"Agreed anything that creeps Britanny creeps me out." Stripe said as he pulled out his batons.
"It was probably just an owl." Gina said as she was about to start scanning for lifeforms in the area. Before she could move her head though two massive shapes leapt from the darkness and one pounced on Brit. The darkness was penetrated by two automatic firing weapons that burst into whatever it was that was attacking us, but did little good. Robocop's handcannon was useless against these things.
"The werecat is mine Thabian!" A female voice yelled as I heard Britanny's cry for help muffled with the word "werewolves" barely escaping her lips. "Make sure the others don't interrupt us."
"Of course Jetta, but be careful."
I was thrown several feet back by the male as I saw him grap at Gina, missing only as a concussive shot smacked him right in the face.
"Leave Britanny alone you f**king bitch!" I yelled as Stripe and Brianna tried to hold off the massive male werewolf. The female didn't even recognize me as a threat. BIG MISTAKE.
"You are meater that other werecats of your kind my dear." Jetta said. "But your strength is far less that a werewolf's". At this point Jetta had thrown Britanny into a tree where her head was sticking out the other side.
"Oooh! Poochie you are dead." Britanny retorted as I was already shifting form.
"I don't think so werecheetah." Jetta answered. "Yuck you have th stech of a shopping mall about you..soft, pampered, disgusting."
"I said LEAVE HER ALONE YOU BITCH!" I was roaring this late bit as my body shifted into a massive 7' tall mountain of black with a white spider on my chest and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth complimented with a prehensile tongue. Jetta never saw the fist that smashed right into her and sent the werewolf flying.
"What in the hell are you?" Jetta answered as I ripped tree away from Cheetah and held her close.
"You okay babe?" I asked as the symbiotic material pulled away from my face.
"Yea just give me a minute hun."
"It's okay. You take five and I will handle this mongel." The fluid of my costume returned me to my chosen form again as I placed myself in harm's way between Jetta and her prey.
"What the hell are you?" Jetta asked again ready to attack me.
"The name is Venom. We are poison to those who attack the innocent, lethal protector of the weak, and you bitch just attacked my lady so guess who is going to get beaten into kibble?" My skin was twitching as I could feel every single gust of wind, almost feel the light around me bend like I could see every ray that hit my body. I felt like I could rip both Jetta and Thabian to bits and I now had every justification in doing so.
"Alright Venom if you want to play we can…play?" Before Jetta could think I had already shot out a web-line and proceeded to pull her into a massive punch which sent her flying into the air. I followed this up by use of the tendril attack alla MVC2 with loads of razer-sharp teeth and whipping black parts of me biting into the werewolf's flesh. I then grapped Jetta's head, wrapped it in the symbiotic material, and slammed her head into the ground.
"So Britanny not up to par for you?" I asked as Jetta was busy coughing dirt up as her healing factor kicked in. "Let's see what you got bitch." With a primal scream she lunged at me, and my reply was to extend our forearms claws and spines which I thrust straight ahead towards her and rammed right into her chest nearly ripping her cloth garment to bits as I cut into her.
"What sort of demon are you?" Jetta asked as she upped her game and went for a more agile approach barely dodging my swipes and trusts.
"Alien not demon, but not that it is going to matter anyway." I replied in a very drooly voice and wrapped my tongue around her ankle and slammed the werewolf through a group of trees.
Sad to say Stripe and Bri weren't having as simple at time.
"Why do you attack us?" Stripe asked as he was using his new weapons to hold Thabian off having already hit the werewolf in the side and the elder lycan not wanting a repeat of the sensation.
"We were fighting only the werecheetah man-cat, and if you were to surrender you and the others would be free to go if you left the werecat and her mate to us." The bigger male replied as he found himself in a stalemate between two attackers both brandishing weapons which could send him to the ground.
"But they have done nothing to either of you till you attacked us." Stripes said as he prepared for whatever Thabian threw at them.
"She is our enemy and must be killed, he attacked us and must also die. NOW GO!" Thabain attempted to punch Stripe in the face, but was a little slow and got caught under the arm with the baton and sent sprawling. The incendiary rounds Brianna were using were stalling his healing factor, but with each passing moment his flesh rejected the metal and the regeneration began anew.
"What blasted things are you firing at me child?" Thabian said to Brianna as she was running out of thermal clips and about to switch to peebos.
"Apparently not something that works." Brianna said as she started launching her bit-bombs.
"I don't know what manner of being you are Venom but I am not the Alpha of the werewolves for nothing." Jetta was having no more of the pounding I was giving her and proceeded to throw a massive rock at me. I did as she predicted and jumped away with far greater ease than any lycan could.
"Then prove it…." Before I could react Jetta rushed me and started to pound away wherever she could. The super speed and strength her lycanthrope gave her proceeded to blast the symbiote material away and with her smaller frame she was able to get inside my defenses.
"So you can be hurt then." Jetta smirked as she unleashed a round house kick to my face while I was recovering from her assault. The impact would have killed me if I were human, but physical attacks don't actually do harm to a symbiote any more than they do to a T-1000.
"Hey Fido remember me?" Britanny said as she rushed Jetta with a cheetah punch and hit right under Jetta's soloplex.
"Oh so the kitty wants to play again…curse your super speed." Jetta said as she had to role to avoid aggravating her injury. "But at least now I know your not…invincible?" Jetta saw me pull myself together without any difficulty and her attacks had been only…
"What an amusing failure." I replied as my mouth reformed. "Still I have to give you credit as if I wasn't impervious to physical attack that would have been the end of me."
"So two against one? So be it." Jetta said as she attempted to face off against Britanny first, being the closest.
"Hey Brit, opening." In an instant I fired a blob of concentrated symbiotic silk what exploded around Jetta and wrapped her upper body tight.
"Thanks muffin." Britanny smiled as she proceeded to lay several punching into Jetta before the werewolf ripped the webbing off of her body and gut punched Brit so hard she was on her knees crying.
"I will not be beaten by an overgrown house cat and her monstrous boytoy." Jetta yelled in a blood rage. "I am going to finish you off once and for all even if I die to do it." Jetta was going to kill Britanny right there and then, and I was ready to spider-leap right at her to tear her head off, but fait had other plans.
See reader Gina had prepared another option if ever she was to face against lycans. With one clean motion the small blonde pulled a rather unassuming .22 cal. Pistol from her shorts and took aim.
The whole world moved in slow motion for me though. I could feel Stripe and Brianna holding back Thabian, Jetta about to kill Britanny, Gina's pull of the trigger, and the movements of a completely unseen and unknown party who was resting just outside of the fray but right in the path of Gina's bullet. I didn't think, I couldn't think, I just did.
In one faster than any lycanthrope jump aided by the enhanced spider-powers of the symbiote I was able to clear the distance between me and Jetta and landed a flying side-kick to her stomach right as Gina was about to fire. I didn't follow through with my attempt to face Jetta for I saw what lay in the path of Gina's bullet as the cry of a hungry baby broke the night air and I bounced off of Jetta putting myself in the path of the projectile that fired from Gina's gun. Everyone turned to see me seemingly about to attack whoever had made the sound and
BANG!
"NO!" Thabian screamed
"What the?" Britanny said as she looked towards me.
"Who was that?" Brianna asked as she looked toward where Thabian's head was pointed.
"A child?" Stripe asked as his guard dropped.
In an instant it was over. Gina's trajectory was dead on for where Jetta would have been but was not anymore, and everyone stopped fighting as they saw me hunched over on the ground.
"My baby…"Jetta said as she was about to cry, completely forgetting the battle.
I rose, not making a word as they saw an empty bassinet and heard nothing. I then turned, with my left arm holding the bundled form of a baby boy in one arm.
"Hey there kiddo, you okay?" I said as I made no attempt to harm the child and he had returned to a somewhat more quite sleep. "Everyone should be so peaceful." I said as I just stood there holding the infant in my arm. No one moved a muscle as I began to move a small caliber bullet that had struck me in the back from the dead center of the white spider emblem on my back through the material of the symbiote till finally it appeared in my hand between my thumb and forefinger.
"I think this is yours Gina." I said as I held the thing infront of my face.
"That's, that's a silver bullet." Britanny explained in horror as she saw the thing shine in the moonlight.
"A silver? You mean you just…." Jetta said as she stood up and didn't dare approach me for fear of silver so close to her babe.
"Your child ma'am." I said to her as I retracted the suit from my head and handing the infant to her. The bullet cupped tightly in the hand far from any lycan. Jetta didn't know what to do, till she slowly approached me and took the little boy into her arms crying heavily as she stepped back holding the infant to her breast.
I stepped back towards Britanny and helped my lady to her feet while Thabian calmly walked to his wife.
"You, you save our son." He said. "Why would you do that? Save the son of an enemy who wants the life of your family?"
"You have heard that it was said 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy'. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes the sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?...So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." I responded. "Gospel of Mathew chapter 5 verses 43 to 48." I responded as everyone waited for something to happen.
"You attempted to kill us and so I had a right to defend myself and those I love. You made war so I fought back to save the lives of my family, but I have no interest in harming you or your family and I will never allow the innocent to come to harm. So where do we stand werewolves?" I asked as I was waiting them to attack…but yet they didn't.
"We nearly lost our son today, but yet…you saved him from certain death. Even after I was about to kill your woman and my husband nearly killed your friends." Jetta said as she took in all that had happened. "And now we owe you a debt for the safety of our beloved son. I…we won't attack you nor will we attempt to harm the werecheetah again."
"I have a name you know." Britanny said as she huffed indignantly.
"Yes, yes you do." Jetta said she handed the boy over to his father and approached Britanny. "And I should know it, because this day it's over."
"What?" came several voices
"Jetta what are you talking about?" Thabian asked as he looked at his mate.
"The war husband, it's…it's over." Jetta yelled back with a breaking heart. "I owe a life-debt and I can't think of how to pay it back any other way." At this Jetta lowered her shoulders and her head to Britanny.
"I don't want to kill you werecheetah."
"Britanny."
"Britanny…I don't want to kill you Britanny. There has been enough death and as you are likely the last of your kind I….I feel that I owe you and your whole race an apology for how I acted when you entered my home. I thought you were going to try to kill me as your family did and I yours, but instead I attacked you without reason and….I am sorry." Jetta was honest and humble and holding back a lot of aggression as she was respectfully pleading her case. "And your partner was willing to forego harming me, who was about to try and kill you, to save my son's life. For this reason I as Alpha of the werewolf clan henceforth declare our feud over, and will do whatever we can to make amends for the damage we have done. I plead your forgiveness and mercy."
"Well sure I guess…" Britanny said scratching her head. "I mean I kind of didn't want to fight you either but…"
"It's instinct, after thousands of years of bloodshed and betrayal." Jetta said knowingly. "So please tell me how I can start to make peace between us."
"Well for starters call me Brit or as my friends say Cheetah, and second we came here because we need a special element to save to save the world from a jerk sorcerer who is trying to destroy the city of Atlantis."
"Done, tell me where this element is and I will find it for you." Jetta said as she looked Britanny in the eye.
"Actually, um Mrs. Jetta." Gina pipped in. "We can find it easy enough but as this is your home we kinda do owe you an apology for busting in."
"You are forgiven child, and I shall personally assist you in this quest till it is done. Don't even bother trying to talk me out of it as it won't work." Jetta smiled as she and Britanny tentatively shook hands.
"Indeed she is a stubborn one at that." Thabian said as we all took a deep breath and began our mission anew.
To be continued.
