Chapter Twenty Four "The Raging Climax Part Two."
No matter what, no matter how dangerous his adversary was, Harry Potter was going to stand up in fight. He was going to do this calmly, casually, and it would not lead him down a road towards defeat.
"You get off on people fearing you," Harry said as he looked at his adversary. "I don't fear you."
"You may not fear me and that will make you a fool," Imperiex said and then he responded with a large bellow. "However, you fear something else, you fear what I could do with those around you and you fear…."
Harry nailed him with a huge bludgeoning spell. It was a force of a train that sent him staggering back. His force was a lot less in this realm than it was normally but never the less, Harry packed a huge punch.
"Once again, you strike me with your hardest shot but it's not nearly hard enough," Imperiex said and he rammed his hand forward with a jab. The force of the jab sent Harry flying back but he avoided cracking against the wall.
"Oh do you?" Harry asked as he held his breath in once more. It was do or die time now. There was no more fooling around, no more pausing. Either he did this or he got brought down straight to hell. Either way, he was going to be strong.
"Look around you, you are alone, there is nothing to help you, Harry Potter!' Imperiex said and he stared him down.
"The last psychopath who said that, well he wasn't breathing much longer," Harry said as he sent down several jagged ice crystals at his enemy. He knew that he had to break that armor, he might have a chance. The problem was that the armor looked to be fairly invulnerable and that was something that annoyed him greatly.
"And you're not alone, not now!" Cir-El said as she zoomed in like a sonic boom. Her first was extended and…..
KABOOM went Imperiex as he hurled back several hundred feet. He cracked hard against the wall and he winced as he connected.
"Yes….you might have taken me down like that, but I still have power," Imperiex said as he tried to stumble to his feet but he was on jelly legs. It felt like a combination of concrete and jelly as a matter of fact, his blood oozing from his mouth.
"Power is a relative term," Rachel said as she turned up. Her robes were tattered, her face was scratched, but energy glowed from her eyes. "You best be careful about playing in the darkness, Imperiex. You could hurt yourself."
The moment she said that, Harry came down on his hand with a resounding clang!
Harry was not pulling any punches, now more so than ever before. He channeled a searing burst of magical energy and shot it towards his adversary, driving it back against the wall. There was a loud and sickening grunt as it was back up against the wall.
"No…this was not….."
"Well, if it wasn't supposed to happen, then you should know that I have this ability to do a lot of what is not going to happen," Harry said as he nearly took off his adversary's head with a well-placed concussive blast.
His next attack was a blast of green magical energy that went from his hand but his enemy dodged the attack.
He used his super speed to dodge it and Rachel was back handed down to the ground.
Cir-El popped through the ground and then like a cork, she shot out through the ground. One rocket buster of a punch it caused Imperiex to go down with a thud.
'Weak spot, got to find it or find an alternative way to take him down,' Harry thought as his heart started to pump even more blood through his body.
Imperiex grabbed Cir-El by the throat but she used a burst of heat vision to temporarily burn his hand.
"You want to play with fire, little girl," Imperiex growled as he conjured beasts made of brimstone.
"Oh fuck," Harry said as he saw something conjured that was Fiendfyre, only about a hundred times worse.
"Pretty much, yes," Rachel agreed, eyes shut as she found a way to negate the spell."You take care off the big guy, I'll see what I can do to get rid of this, before the world burns down."
"Sounds like a plan," Harry said and there was a thunderous laughter. Harry was not going to lie, he everything could come crashing down.
Eerily calm, he raised his hands and clapped them, causing a thunderclap of magic to resound around them.
Imperiex was gone but that meant he was only going to recharge.
'Time for the kill,' Harry projected to anyone that might be able to hear him.
Kara had no idea where Harry went or maybe even when. The nature of his disappearance was quite vexing to her.
"I know Kara, I know," Diana told the young blonde reassuringly as she shook her head. The Amazon Princess looked up to the stars, hoping for a beacon of hope but there was none. "But we've got a world to say."
"He's….SHIT!" Chloe yelled at the top of her lungs and Kara had no need to tell her what she said.
Stampeding beasts made of fire appeared through a rift between time and space and the blonde watched them. Karen looked at them, her mouth hung open halfway but words failed her. They failed her big time.
Zatanna put up a barrier, but it required constant effort on her part. Sweat already poured down her face, as the creatures, which seemed to be growing.
"Here," Imra said as she reinforced the barrier with her telekinetic abilities and it was here that Karen came to the grimmest possible conclusion.
"We won't be able to hold that forever," Karen said, hoping that Harry would beat him soon because they could use their help. She really wished she had been able to see if she could unlock her magical abilities.
"We don't have any time for you to go through the trials or go through a lot of magical education, now's the time, just follow your instincts, and we might be able to stall these things," Kara said without missing a beat and taking a breath. Karen nearly opened her mouth but the blonde slowly clapped her hand over her mouth. "No, Karen, I know that you can do it, because I can do it."
"Okay, you know….you know, I'm just going to do it," Karen said and Kara nodded approvingly.
"Well, whatever you're going to do, you better do it quickly, or you're going to be medium rare," Imra thought as her teeth clenched together and her hands shook as sweat poured down her hands. If she even blinked, they would be fucked.
"Right, just do it, got it, coming right up," Kara said as she summoned the power and Karen copied her movements. She was nuts trying this, trying to do this time of advanced magic sight unseen, without any proper preparations.
The blonde could feel something tingle to the tips of her toes but she just hoped that it was not her about to explode into nothingness. Her jaw was set as she felt numbness spread from her shoulder blades. Her breathing increased as she renewed her focus.
"Just do, remember just do," Kara whispered to Karen as she squeezed her shoulder.
"Well, do it then," Zatanna said as she felt her hands blister badly. The creatures were trying to blister ther hands.
"It's happening all over the planet," Chloe said, not wanting to be the bear of bad news, but she figured that in the interest of full disclosure. "I know, wonderful right?"
"Yes, very," Imra said as she gritted her teeth, sounding a bit more snarky than she have. The blonde threw her head and she gave a groan as she closed her eyes. Biting down on her lip, she sighed.
"The moment of truth is at hand," Karen whispered as she could feel it fill her finger tips and she would ever blast them away or she would break past, present, and future into little bite size fragments. Either way, things should be fun. The energy pulsed through her hands and rammed into the energy wall, hitting it full on with a blunt force.
The moment of truth was hand, seconds grinded by through time and Karen waited, waited for it to happen. She continued to wait but there was nothing. The blonde held onto the wall, and waited with the breath that escaped her breath.
The creatures burned out, turning into nothingness and the blonde dropped to the ground. She felt completely drained.
"Are you alright?" Zatanna asked as Kara wrapped her hands and Karen shook her head, coughing a little bit.
"I feel like that I'm the one who should be asking you that," Karen said as she was completely winded but there was a calm, the shadow creatures, the flame creatures, even the human minions, they all disappeared.
Most would be pleased by that but they were all too drained to care.
"Well….I've had much worse," Zatanna said as she knew that her hands would heal in a few days. Suddenly, it was almost like they were standing on a barren wasteland.
"I would tell you we have a problem but that would be stating the obvious," Tess chimed in and Karen nodded.
"Yes, it would," Naru said but she grew rigid, her pupils dilating as she rolled her shoulders back and she grow rigid.
"NARU!" Salu said as she grabbed her arm but Naru was shaking madly.
"Stand back, give her some space," Tinya said, a bit nervous and Imra joined in quickly. She was trying to read Naru's mind waves but she was caught by it, there was a sinister laughter that filled their ears.
"Chloe, Tess, Alexis, Alexandra, anyone?" Kara asked but there was no answer.
"You've been disconnected," the harsh voice of the monster said and they all felt their blood run colder than cold could be. The girls of the Legion reared their heads back as there was something that went through them.
"We're not even on Earth," Kara said as she groaned, they played right into his hands.
"Very perceptive, Kryptonian, it will be a shame that you will be annihilated as well," Imperiex said and Kara waved her hand around, she had to really find him and find him soon but he was off of the map. They were very much screwed.
"Stay alert, we can beat him," Imra said, although they were now in his domain. Naru looked up at her and she managed to speak what she saw.
"I saw the end."
Harry could tell that the end was here, although he was not sure who the end was for. All he knew was that he needed to press on. Time was not on his side but he refused to be broken.
'The moment of truth is sooner than we think,' Harry mentally informed himself as he popped his way through the vortex.
Whether Rachel or anyone else succeeded, Harry was woefully ignorant to that point. All he could do was keep moving.
Harry could see them on the other side of the vortex, which was not a good thing. If the girls had been brought here, it was the intention that Imperiex would finish them off. Cir-El dropped to Harry's side, her breath causing her chest to rise and fall. She articulated the one thing that had been burning through Harry's mind like a wicked sympathy of terror.
"I think we found them," she managed, swallowing the lump in her throat and nervous did not even begin to know what she felt.
"He just made the biggest mistake ever," Harry said as he walked forward and Cir-El grabbed him by the arm, holding him back. This action caused Harry to take pause and raise his eyebrow. There was one statement that popped through his mouth and it was wrapped in confusion along with a bit of intrigued. "What are you doing?"
"I've got a plan," Cir whispered to him and now Harry was even more intrigued than ever, along with a tiny bit suspicious. "So do you trust me?"
"Oh boy that's an auspicious statement as ever, but yes I trust you," Harry whispered to her, wondering what the Kryptonian had up her sleeve. Although it could be any number of things and it could end well but it always that chance that it could end extremely badly.
"Good, then, we need do something," Cir-El said to him as she whispered the plan in his ear.
Harry nodded all of the way and he was not going to lie, it was just crazy enough to work. Although he was no stranger to strange plans, this really had gotten about a twelve on a scale of one to ten with the craziness scale. It was gutcheck time.
The Legion stared up at Imperiex and kept looking at him. None of them were going to back down, no matter how imposing he looked.
"So what's the plan?" Kara asked and Imra paused after a few seconds. She gave the most obvious statement as she crossed her arms together.
"We're going to attack him with everything that we have," Imra said and there was no question about it, she was ready. She pulled into all of their power, they all did.
There was a series of attacks that bounced off of the creature and staggered him back. The armor cracked around him as the creature held his head up and he coughed for a moment. The blonde screwed her eyes, but he held her out by the head and shoved her back.
"You dare touch me!" he howled at the top of his lungs and there was a second where Cir-El flew into the scene.
"No more, you'll spare us if we give you him, right?" Cir-El asked and Imperiex turned to him. "Or is that what you really want?"
"You better clarify for this," Imperiex stated as he stared her down and the dark haired girl stared him down.
"We were created for the same purposes, a way to…..duplicate him, but we have been turned different, in different ways," Cir said as she clutched her hands together and stared them down. Her eyes narrowed as fire burned through their eyes. The dark haired girl kept her hands on her waist. "But, you seek conquest, where I seek redemption or do you?"
"Do I what?" Imperiex asked as Harry was sneaking up behind him casually but he turned around and caught Harry immediately. "You thought that you could sneak up on me and take me down, just like that."
"That was the intention but there's always a back up plan," Harry whispered and at that moment, Cir-El jumped in from behind him.
She struck the weak spot with a full blunt force and it dropped him down onto the ground. There was a scream as the energy wrapped around him.
"Now, with everything!" Kara yelled as she tried to encouragement. The blonde raised her hand up into the air as she held her arm up into the air. The blonde used her heat vision to keep him locked into the ground.
The bright lights and powerful attacks bounced off of the menace, as his sinister eyes glared as he tried to reach at them.
"One more time!" Harry yelled and he summoned the full powers that he could muster.
The big bang caused him to drop down. "NOW!"
"Portal, now!" Rachel yelled as her ashened face could be seen.
"What about…."
"I'll be fine, go just go," Harry said, the girls had beaten him down but he needed to be the one to finish him off.
"If I go, I'll take you with me," Imperiex growled but Harry was not about to go down without a fight at all. He rammed his shoulder into the creature and sent him flying with a careening force.
Bright light engulfed the world as the abomination that never should have been disappeared but Harry vanished as well, engulfed in a wave of destruction.
"Checking the scanners, don't freak out," Chloe said, even though she should practice what she preached because she was freaking out. The blonde was moving through everything at the speed of light. Her mind was processing everything.
"Chloe, you should calm down, before you burn out your processors," Tess said and Chloe cast her one of those looks that indicated that she was not about to calm down. The redhead sighed, knowing fully well when to pick her battles.
"Am calm, I am calm,' Chloe said through gritted teeth, looking anything but calm, but never the less, the blonde folded her arms over her chest, rocking her head back.
"He could be any time, any place, anywhere," Karen said and Chloe gave her an evil eye. The Legion escaped that battle unscathed. They were not sure if Imperiex even was brought down; there were so many unanswered questions.
"I've got something now," Alexis said as she saw a face in the matrix, between past, present, and future.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
Chloe nearly stood up straight and banged her knee on the other side of the counsel. It was not Harry but never the less it piqued it never the less. In fact this shocked her even more than what happened with Harry.
"Lois," Chloe whispered but the face, as she found it, had been lost.
"It's….."
"I know what I saw!" Chloe yelled hotly but much to her frustration, what she saw had vanished off into nothingness. It was almost like past, present, and future aligned with itself simultaneously and it was done so to taunt her. The blonde kept herself in check as she reminded herself what was important. Than she jumped in to find Harry. "Okay….I think that there is some kind of strand of time…."
"I can see something," Naru whispered, now that the end did not come true, she was in much better spirits.
"I sense some thoughts," Imra said and she shook her head. "What if…."
"He can't die, remember," Kara said to them all in an even voice. Although she was still worried and there were many fates that were worse than death. Being trapped a second out of sync with all time, forced to relieve your worst memories were one of those fates.
"I know," Chloe said but she said nothing else. "Harry, if you can hear any of us, give us a sign, anything?"
"We're going to try something, if you trust us," Alexandra said and there was a second where everyone paused. It was just that Luthor twins and trust was not a very nice combination of words. Yet, somehow, someway, they just had to trust that this situation would better itself. "We swear, that we won't break open the time space continuum or anything but we might have an idea to track Harry, it's going to take all of the power that we have…."
"And it will take days to recharge, but it will be much more pleasant than losing Harry," Alexis said as she looked at Tess and Chloe for the go ahead. "If there's a particle of him still in this present time, than we can bring him back."
Karen blanched at the implications that Harry was ripped apart into microscopic particles and scattered all throughout space-time, never once able to register anything on his mind. The blonde's mind was on autopilot as she avoided thinking of those implications.
"Well, what do you have to think?" Alexis asked and she decided to impress upon them one more thing. "The longer way wait, the longer the window of opportunity slides by."
"Then we really don't have many options do we," Kara said as they needed her go ahead because she was the Alpha, although Zatanna, Cir-El, Maxima, and the rest of the Legion backed her up.
"There is a slight chance that this will not work….." Alexandra started as Alexis picked up straight where her sister had left off.
"But given the alternatives, I think that all of us can agree that this is the much more appealing option," Alexis said as she placed her hand on the edge of the console. Fiddling with the dial, she was trying to lock onto her adversary. The two Luthor twins were either going to lock onto their grandest achievement or hit their most spectacular failure. There was really no room either way on the other end as both girls readied themselves for what was coming in on the other side.
There was a subtle humming on the other end.
"A hum, really, I hate the hum," Alexis whispered as she shook her head. She mouthed one more word. "Almost….."
"Got it, we almost got it, well we got something…..you better prepare yourself for something that could be dangerous coming through that portal on the other side, just in case," Alexandra said and the Legion stood rigid and there was a huge pop that came through the other side.
"Harry," Kara said and she was not trying to get her hopes dashed, but never the less, she squealed with delight when Harry went through the portal and landed hard on the other side.
"Be careful, he's very fragile," Alexis said and Kara shook her head.
"Don't worry, I know what to do, divert all of the power to the medical bay," Kara said taking charge of this situation and it was unwise to argue with her.
Harry's mind was buzzing with what happened, although it took him a few minutes to really come through what happened. However, when his body became conscious, he knew that the final signs of healing were beginning.
His body lapsed in a temporary catatonic state until he could completely heal the damage from his body. His heart hammered against his chest as his fingers became completely numb as he tried to keep his head up but it was hard, believe him, it was rather hard. The green eyed wizard saw Imra sitting there, with Tinya and Lournu.
"So how are you feeling?" Imra asked him.
"Alive," Harry commented with a smile as Tinya nodded by his side.
"That's always a good thing," the dark haired girl said happily as she ran her hand down the side of Harry's face for a few seconds. "There were a lot of people who were worried….Kara finally crashed, and she had been up for seventeen days straight before she gave up."
"Don't you mean seventeen hours?" Harry asked, unable to fathom such a thing.
"Well we're completely out of coffee, so what do you think?" Imra asked and there was a moment where Harry nodded.
"So the world did not end in the seventeen days that I was out?" Harry asked and they shook their heads in response.
"Imperiex….has been dismantled and scattered all throughout time, whether he'll return one day or not, we cannot say, but we have data where we'll have be able to stop him if he does," Imra said as she wrapped her hand around Harry's hand and squeezed it tightly. He responded with a nod.
"I'm pretty sure that he will not be back but if we is, we'll be there, and I will be as well," Harry said as Imra sat next to him with a smile on her face. "And I couldn't have defeated him without you."
Tinya grinned as she brushed Harry's hair out of his eyes. "It was a team effort, you'll find that we're good at team work."
"Oh, you don't say?" Harry asked to the dark haired girl and she realized the implications of what she said, going flushed, with Naru was amused by as she walked there.
"Well, I think that you stuck your foot into your mouth with that one," Naru said with a wide smirk on her face and the dark haired woman looked rather crimson red at the thought of it. "But I'm sure that we're all here for the same reason….we just got to wait for Salu to join us."
"What is taking her so long?" Lournu asked as she shifted around nervously. The girl was about ready to split in half quiet literally.
"Hey don't be so high strung, that's all, good things come to those who wait," Naru said and she placed her hands on her hips. Harry noticed that she was wearing a thin silver robe that parted at her amazing thighs and she bent for a second for Harry to see all of her. "And I'm sure that Harry will agree that it's worth the wait."
"Very much worth the wait," Harry agreed as he could see that the robe flap a little bit to reveal her amazing thighs and also that she was wearing nothing underneath it. Imra shook her head, amusement brimming through her eyes.
"Kara's going to be upset that she's going to miss out on this, both of them in fact, but….well I think that we will be more than up for it," Imra said and Salu made her way inside. She was wearing a sleek sheer black body suit that clung through her amazing body.
"Oh, Harry is up," Salu said as she licked her lips and Imra shifted, she was wearing nothing but a long white nightshirt and really nothing else. It rode up to show what was underneath, barely meeting at her butt cheeks as she bent over.
"I think someone's up for something," Tinya said coyly as she lifted back the covers, to reveal the tent that Harry had been pitching through his bed clothes.
"Oh dear, it appears that the treatment has had some residual swelling," Lournu said as the three duplicates appeared, all dressed in slinky nurse uniforms.
"I think that we should check for some residual swelling," one of them said as she softly licked her tongue around her lips with lust burning through her eyes.
"Oh should we?" another duplicate said as she trailed her tongue against the underside of her lip and she wrapped her arm around his shoulders and then the final dupe made her way down between Harry's legs.
"All of the residual swelling seems to have gone….beneath the belt," the final dupe concluded as she squeezed his package with a hungry glint in her eyes. Pure lust resounded in her eyes and Harry's heart did speed up as she played with him. "So are you ready?"
"Oh you know it," Harry breathed with a wide smile on his face as she kept working him over. She pressed her lips onto his mouth and the other girls positioned themselves to work him over.
"We better leave the door open," Imra said and Salu nodded.
"It is an orgy, there should be no reason to lock anyone out," Salu said firmly and there was agreement from all.
Kara slipped in, most frustratingly a bit later for the party. The blonde wore a light blue tank top and jean shorts as she made her way over. She could see the pile of girls that were fucked senseless as far as the eyes could see.
The blonde slipped over towards him.
"Glad to see you're feeling better," Kara said as she got into bed and snuggled to his side.
Harry held her in tight.
"Well it isn't every day that you almost die," Harry said but he amended. "Actually it's far more…."
Kara silenced him with a fiery kiss which Harry returned. She might not have joined the main orgy but she was here for the after party and anyone who popped up there could join them.
After she got some alone time with her husband of course.
To Be Continued.