Spark of Genius
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AN: Thanks for the votes and notes in response to the poll, and the winner is…. Not going to tell you, don't want to spoil it. ;-) Don't get all huffy, the story will continue on and many zany madcap adventures will happen.
AN2: Ok, warning. There is a love scene in this chapter, and though it is a bit detailed I like to think that I keep it from getting crude. It isn't anywhere compared to some of the other stories that I have read on this site, so it should be ok. But please just skip that part if reading about adults enjoying each other offends you, ok?
'Thought'
"Speech"
Chapter 4: Magic Hates Me
"All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action."
— Jim Butcher (Proven Guilty)
Willow was crying, and Xander couldn't comfort her. He watched, trying to reach her, but every time he tried to run to her she seemed to be pulled away from him as if the ground was a giant grassy treadmill that wouldn't let him go anywhere. He tried leaping, using his new super strength to propel him to her side, but he seemed to rebound off of an invisible wall of some sort. Willows sobbing tore at his heart, her anguished cries continued as he tried to call out to her, yet she couldn't hear him.
Then, just as she was laying a yellow crayon down on a grave that bore his name, Xander woke up.
Xander shot straight up into a sitting position, sweat dripping down his body and nuts and bolts that had been lying around him on the sheets fell to the floor.
Looking around wild eyed, it took a second for Xander's consciousness to remember exactly where he was and what was happening around him. Sighing to himself, Xander figured that it was best that he get his day started.
Xander swung his feet off the bed and onto the floor, standing up in one fluid motion. Or at least he attempted to, as he had approximately one second to realize that he had hopped on top of a skateboard before said skateboard shot out from under his feet, propelling him into the air and onto his side.
Laying upside down on the floor, shaking his head to clear the little clanks that seemed to be doing loops in his vision and around his head, Xander thought to himself, 'Some mornings it just doesn't do to get out of bed.'
Turning his head to the side so that he could make sure he didn't step on any errant skateboards, ball bearings, marbles, or banana peels Xander stood up and again shook his head.
'I really hope this isn't an omen about how the day is going to go.' Xander thought to himself as he stood by his bed and stretched his arms into the air, causing a few cracking and popping sounds to come from his back.
It was then that the contents of his dream came back to mind.
"I miss Willow." Xander said with a sigh, finally admitting and putting to words the feelings that had been haunting him in the back of his head since he had arrived in this different dimension.
He started moving around his living area, searching for a semi-clean shirt and his shoes that he had taken off the previous night.
A crash like broken glass sounded in the distance of his warehouse lab area, and it was the impetus for a brain storm.
"Wait." Xander said to himself, a little voice in the back of his head telling him that talking to oneself was the first sign of insanity. He crushed the little voice of reason in the back of his head, and continued talking to himself.
"The fish bowl transdimensional fusion energy module! I can remake it and go home!" Xander stated to himself with a whoop of joy, a smile forming on his face as he forget his search for a shirt in his rush to head towards his lab.
Diving through the blast shield separating his sleeping area from his lab the sounds of small explosions, tinkling glass, buzz saws, screeching metal, and a duck's call began to issue up from his work area.
He was almost finished, he just needed to borrow some power from the Metropolis power grid to kick start the dimensional flux power core. That is why he was standing in the sewers deep underneath Lexcorp towers; about to plug two jumper cables into the high powered nodes on the towers' mainlines. Apparently Lex Luthor had spared no expense in making sure that all of his high powered technology had all of the electricity that it needed.
"Hmmm," Xander stated to himself, again talking out loud, "There is a high probability that this could blow out all power to the entire Lexcorp system." He stated, hesitating for a second to attach the negative power cable.
"Oh well, Lex is a villain anyway, so I guess I can call this my good deed for the day." Xander said with a smile and a shrug as he connected the last jumper cable.
The effect of attaching the second cable was immediate.
Electricity zapped and twisted around the cable in Xander's hands, blasting him across the sewer pipe and leaving a pair of smoking shoes behind where the electricity had traveled through him and grounded itself.
Pushing himself out of the indentation where he had been imbedded in the wall, a slightly smoking and now crazy haired Xander stood and cracked his back a couple of times, shook his head, and then walked back towards his shoes and the now glowing blue orb of transdimensional energies.
Twitching a little bit and smiling manically, Xander yelled, "It worked! Eureka! HA ha! I can't believe it worked!"
Xander continued stating his chain of thoughts, "Now I just need to break it while in contact with the energy and my gear and I'll be home!" He trilled to himself as he disconnected the still sparking jumper cables and dropped them on the ground, picked up the orb and started walking down the sewer tunnel that would lead him out and back towards the junkyard.
Behind him, left unattended by his distraction at completing his 'ticket home,' the transformer jumper cables had landed next to each other and sparks were flying from one cable to the other.
High above on the 100th floor of Lexcorp towers, Lex Luthor was finishing up his computer virus that was supposed to take over the mechanized mind of one of Superman's greatest nemesis, Brainiac.
All Lex had to do was hit the enter key and his long line of data, the lifetime results of several 'deceased' scientists, would be saved; leaving him with complete control of the Trojan virus and the ability to control Brainiac and the knowledge that the sentient computer had collected.
Before his hand could transcend the distance it took from moving from mouse to enter key, the lights in the office, the coffee pot, the stock tickertape machine, the TV screens showing the news from around the world, the mechanized robot bodyguard in its changing station in the corner, and the computer on his desk all sparked, sparked, and then sparked again before blowing up in a conflagration of flames and electrical discharge.
"Bah!" Lex screamed as he dived out of the way of the flying glass from his computer screen and the lights on his ceiling.
"Damn it!" Lex screamed as he pounded his desk. 'All of that data lost! All of the scientists who put it together are dead now, and I have nothing to show for it!' Lex Luthor thought furiously, as his blood pressure spiked and his face started to go red with anger.
Just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, the robot charging station in the corner of his office sparked again, and ignited in flames that exploded towards the ceiling, setting off the battery controlled fire alarms.
The sprinklers in Lex's office all came on at the same time, drenching the bald supervillain who was already shaking in pent up fury.
"Damn you Superman! Damn you to hell!" Lex Luthor screamed and shook his fist towards the ceiling, once again blaming all of his life's problems on the superhero.
In another part of the city, Clark Kent sneezed, just as Jimmy was walking by Clark's desk.
"He he, guess somebody is thinking about you Clark." Jimmy said in a good natured way as he carried his camera on the way towards the Daily Planet's dark room.
"Hmmm, I guess so Jimmy." Clark said with a smile, as he pushed his glasses up his nose and obliviously went back to typing up his latest article.
Xander made it back to his lab and set the glowing orb on a pedestal that rested on a trunk full of his toys and trinkets he had made. Several of the little clanks had jumped up onto his shoulders and head, or laid a claw on Xander in preparation for him to break the energy orb.
Raising a ball hammer above the orb, Xander prepared to crush it when a voice behind interrupted.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you McGurk." A slightly high-pitched voice stated.
At the same time as the voice stated that, the hammer in Xander's hand turned into a rubber chicken.
"No!" Xander cried out in agony without looking at where the voice came from. He was so close to going home to Willow. With that, he punched his fist at the orb.
Only to have a whoopee cushion appear in the space between his fist and the transdimensional energy orb. A whoopee cushion that let off a little fart sound with the force of Xander's blow before expanding in size until it rapidly formed the shape of a small elephant, expanding with enough force to send Xander and the clanks around him flying around the room and rolling across the floor.
Jumping up into a defensive stance, Xander saw a little floating man with a large head, small body, and a tiny flowered hat on his head. Xander's blood ran cold, as he knew exactly who was stopping him from going home.
There floated Mr. Mxyzptlk, the fifth dimensional traveler who had been such a pain in the ass to Superman in several of the comic books that Xander had read.
Number 5 and Number 6, the defense robots Xander had created and brought to life, charged the little floating man, their laser weapons dropping into place and charging.
"Hasta La Viesta, Baby!" Number 5 stated as he attacked the floating midget, only for both Number 5 and Number 6 to disappear in a poof of smoke.
When the smoke cleared, a squawk was heard, and two platypuses scurried away from Mr. Mxyzptlk to hide behind Xander's legs.
"Stand down guys, we can't beat him." Xander stated, knowing that the magic that the Fifth dimension dweller controlled was more than Xander and his gang of robots could currently fight.
Mr. Mxyzptlk smiled, and a small floating chair appeared behind him, which the midget sat in.
"I like you Xander Harris, your much more fun than Superman." Mr. Mxyzptlk stated.
Xander noticeably gulped.
Mr. Mxyzptlk continued, "No no, don't worry. I just wanted to tell you a few rules to the game that is going to be played here. You see, I'm not really here. The rules were set and I'm not allowed to play with Superman any more, or his control anybody from his dimension. However, that doesn't stop me from keeping you from transcending the boundaries from this dimension to another." The midget continued with a smirk, a glass of strawberry milk appearing in both his and Xander's hand suddenly.
Xander politely placed the milk to the side, knowing that it wouldn't be safe to drink anything that the magical mad midget gave him.
"Besides, I just saved your life." Mr. Mxyzptlk stated with a shrug.
This caught Xander's attention enough to speak up.
"What do you mean you just saved my life?" Xander asked, raising an eyebrow and finding that he was strangely comfortable holding a conversation with a floating midget with a huge head; after all, the rest of his life had been odd, why not this?
"Yep, saved your life I did. That orb wouldn't have sent you home if you broke it. That there orb's next destination is a hell dimension known as Hell, Gehenna, Hades, Hel, Jahannam, Sheol, Tartarus and an all around bad place to live; no waterfront property or bananas for as far as the eye can see." Mr. Mxyzptlk continued with a wave of his hand.
Xander suddenly found himself sitting in a lazy-boy recliner chair in the middle of a snowstorm, yet for some reason the snowflakes weren't cold and strangely tasted of marmalade.
Xander shook his head that his first reaction was to try and taste the snow, and then he looked up at the midget to ask the question that meant the most to him.
"Then how am I supposed to get home to my dimension?" Xander asked, brushing the marmalade snowflakes off his shoulder and absentmindedly petting the fur of the platypuses that were now resting on his lap.
"You don't!" Mr. Mxyzptlk stated with a smile. "You're going to stay here stuck in this dimension and have enough fun for the two of us, entertain me until I get bored with you." The midget's smile definitely took on a bit of a malicious smirk to it.
"Just because I can't control you, doesn't mean I can't keep you stuck in this measly third dimensional space." Mr. Mxyzptlk stated, making it look like it disgusted him to talk about something that was limited to only three dimensions.
Suddenly, the room was once again as it was, and Xander found himself standing over the orb with the hammer about to strike the energy ball.
Leaping back from the orb, Xander threw the hammer away from himself.
"Wow. Did that really happen?" Xander said to himself as he looked around his workshop and its gathered robots and clanks.
"He he he he, have fun McGurk." The voice of Mr. Mxyzptlk ushered out of the air from the now intangible midget.
Looking at the orb, Xander cringed a bit at what he had almost done.
"Ok gang, change of plans. No going home today." Xander stated, a bit sadly as he gazed at the orb. "Everybody back to work." He finished, as his shoulders slumped.
Walking up to the orb, Xander gazed at its swirling blue energies for a second before picking it up and putting into a padded steal chest that he had made. Setting the biometric locks on the chest, Xander slowly slid the box under his bed.
He would have to spend some timing thinking on how to get around the midget, but for now he knew he was stuck in the Justice League dimension; for better or worse.
Looking up and around the workspace, the little robot's going off to finish their chores and tinkering, Optimus helping to hold a wing of a plane off the ground so that Number 5 could use its laser to cut off the jet engine, Xander sighed.
'I've got to go for a walk.´ Xander thought as he grabbed his leather jacket and headed out the door with his hands in his pockets. 'Maybe an evening walk into Metropolis will give me something to distract me from the pain of today's failure.' He thought moodily as he walked out of the warehouse and towards the city whose lights were just starting to turn on in the evening dusk.
Xander had been walking for an hour through the streets of downtown Metropolis before he found himself in front of a theater and its marquee posters.
TONIGHT ONLY! THE FABULOUS MAGICAL ZATANNA!
The posters showed an attractive woman with a top hat and shortcut feminine tuxedo, wearing fishnet stockings and tall black stiletto heels.
The picture made Xander smile. Back in the day, when Jesse and he had been the terrible duo, back in the simpler days when they could run around Sunnydale pretending to be Superheroes, Jesse and Xander had taken part in the oft repeated comic book debates.
They had debated the classics, who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman? Or, if you could be a superhero, who would you be? If you had to be a supervillain, who would you be? And of course, if you could have any one of the female superheroes as a girlfriend, who would it be? Which one of the super-chicks was the hottest?
The last two debate topics had gained more focus once both boys hit puberty and began to realize that even though the women in the comic books were only alive in ink, they were damn hot.
Sure, Jesse and he had always known that the figures in their comics were imaginary, but here was one of the gorgeous superwomen come to life for him.
Smiling, Xander slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. Walking up to the ticket window, Xander exchanged a fifty dollar bill for a ticket for a seat at one of the 'dinner and a show' dining tables; the show was to start in fifteen minutes.
Walking through the red carpeted halls of the theater, Xander made his way into the auditorium of the theater/dinner-club and found a seat in the back; habit and history had taught him that it wasn't wise to allow his back to be open for attack, even in as innocuous of a location as a theater.
Taking off his coat and putting it on his chair, he had just enough time to place his order for his meal and order a coke before the lights in the theater dimmed and a spotlight ignited a beam of light onto a single empty spot on the stage.
All was quiet in the audience, and just before the people could begin to mutter about the lack of a show or light in the dining area, flames exploded from the stage, smoke flew from the ground, and lightning exploded from the ceiling, all congealing into a single figure in the middle of the stage.
It was Zatanna, hat tipped low to cover her eyes, right leg slightly crooked forward on the tip of her toe, and the other planted underneath her as she stood with her right arm extended, balancing on a black magician's cane.
Peeking out from under her hat with a smile, the crowd gave her a thundering ovation, clapping their hands and whistling at what was promising to be a great show.
Smiling, Zatanna spun her cane in her right hand until it looked like a helicopter's blades, or a spinning umbrella, and out of the spinning flew dozens of doves.
Doves that flew out over the audience and turned into roses. From her left arm and out of her sleeve shot cards, every one of them a queen of hearts that shot out and impaled itself on the stem of a rose before either could fall onto the audience. Every rose pierced card fell perfectly into the lap of an audience member, just like magic.
The only inkling that Xander had that Magic still didn't like him was that his rose hit him in the head. But that foreshadowing was soon ignored as the show continued.
There were card tricks, and illusions, transfigurations and transportations of items. Rabbits spilled out of the beautiful Magician's hat, rabbits that played leap frog with each other in acrobatic synchronized shows; only to all neatly line up and leap back into her hat.
The crowd jumped to their feet in a standing ovation at the final feat of magical control.
As the last rabbit jumped into her hat, the lights came up on the audience and Zatanna addressed the crowd; the lights inspiring the people in the audience to sit and listen.
"Now comes time for you to get involved in the act." She said with a saucy wink and a smile. "I'm looking for a volunteer." She stated as she looked out over the audience.
For some reason, this statement caused a cold sweat to form on the back of Xander's neck.
Zatanna looked out over the audience, and her attention was immediately drawn to the handsome dark haired man sitting alone in the back. She noted that without his jacket that settled on his chair that his short sleeved shirt was bulging with muscles, but not the type that was due to muscle-building drugs, more like the muscular frame of superman. However, unlike superman this man didn't look like a boy scout, there was a certain sense of danger and a hint of darkness that seemed to emanated from the stranger, kind of a cross between Superman's good looks and Batman's bad-boy image.
'Yum' Zatanna thought to herself as she subconsciously licked her lips.
Whispering a sentence backwards under her breath, a spotlight at the top of the theater's roof turned and shined right on Xander.
"We have a volunteer!" Zatanna said with a gleam in her eye.
Xander's shot wide, and he quickly looked to the left, and then the right, realizing that he was the only person in the audience spot lighted. Quickly shaking his head 'NO' he waved his hands in front of himself, hoping she would read his meaning that he didn't want to do it.
'Ahhh, he's shy too! How cute.' Zatanna thought as her smirk got larger.
"How about a round of applause for our brave volunteer?" Zatanna stated, as she held her hand out to Xander with a twinkle in her eye.
The crowd all turned and focused on Xander and clapped for him, many of them cheering for him and telling him to get up there.
Hesitantly, and then with the resignation of a man walking to his proverbial death, Xander squared his shoulders and gave Zatanna a slight glare, but his smile told her that he wasn't too angry at having to come up on stage.
Xander walked to the front of the stage, and just to play with Zatanna, he smirked, slightly flexed his legs, and jumped the six feet up onto the stage rather than use the stairs at the sides of the auditorium.
Xander landed next to Zatanna with a bit of a smirk on his face and returned her earlier twinkly eyed smile.
"Hi." Xander said, before waving at the audience. Only Zatanna really understood the feat that it was to leap higher than six feet without any effort. She was taken aback for a second, but being the consummate show-woman, she got back into the swing of her act quickly.
Turning to Xander, she asked, "So hi there big guy, what's your name?" She said with a smile, hoping to turn the tables and make him blush.
Xander gave her a goofy smile and played along, merely answering that his name was Xander.
"So Xander, have you enjoyed watching the show so far?" Zatanna asked.
"I've enjoyed watching you, and the show is good also." Xander stated, a bit startled at his own flirtatious words and not really understanding where this confidence and lady skills was coming from.
'Perhaps it's more of that Heterodyne knowledge.' He thought to himself, not letting it slip that he didn't really know what he was doing when it came to flirting with the attractive magician. 'Still, it sure beats my reaction when I first ran into Buffy on her first day of school, now that was awkward.' He continued thinking, realizing that his prior statement had made Zatanna blush.
Zatanna flirted back a bit, and continued her conversation with Xander in front of the audience.
"Why thank you kind sir." She stated with a partial bow before again standing up to her full height, realizing that even with her four inch heels on that Xander was taller than her and the top hat she wore.
"How would you like to help me do some magic." Zatanna asked Xander.
"Um, well honestly, I really wouldn't like to help you." Xander stated, and then hurried to continue when he saw Zatanna look change to that of Willow when she was about to put on her 'determined face'.
Xander held up his hands defensively, "Wait. It's not like I don't want to help you, it's just, well, it's just that Magic hates me." Xander stated with a chagrined apologetic smile.
Zatanna looked at Xander for a second, taken aback at his statement. Then with a slightly flirtatious wink she answered.
"Aw, don't be that way; I'm pretty sure that my magic likes you." With that a multicolored stream of scarves flew out of her sleeve and seemed to caress Xander's face as if it was alive before disappearing back up her sleeve.
Between her wink that accompanied her statement and the actions of the scarf, Xander was now blushing red, enough so that the audience could pick it up and laughed at the interaction between the performer and her prey, um, that is 'volunteer.'
"Ok, so who wants to see him help me with some magic?" Zatanna addressed the crowd, waiving her arms up and encouraging the audience to cheer and clap for Xander to participate.
Once again, Xander bowed to the peer pressure from the audience. 'After all, it's not like anything bad could happen.' Xander thought to himself as he continued to blush, and then nodded at Zatanna and the crowd that he would participate.
The crowd wolf whistled and cheered at him being a good sport and helping out in the act.
"Ok, so first of all we have to get some preliminaries out of the way." Zatanna stated as she addressed both Xander and the audience.
"You and I have never met before, correct?" She stated with a smile.
Xander smirked back at her, "I'm pretty sure I'd remember it if I did," he stated with a smirk and visibly looked her up and down.
It was now Zatanna's turn to blush, but she quickly played along and blew a kiss at him and continued as she walked up and down the front of the stage.
"He is not my employee, and you've all seen how hard it was to get him to come up here, didn't you?" She stated, winking and joking with the crowd, who cheered at her question.
"Alright then," Zatanna stated as she took her top hat off of her head and used her cane to tap the tip of it. She then stuck her hand inside of the hat and pulled out a long, large, crimson cape that she finished pulling out of the hat with a flourish and a spin around her body; effectively showing the audience that it was a simple heavy silk cloth, large enough to fully cover a person.
"Alright, so who wants to see me make Xander disappear and then reappear again?" Zatanna asked the audience with a big smile.
The crowd cheered wildly.
"What about you Xander, what do you think about being involved in my magical disappearing act?" Zatanna stated with a flirtatious quirk of her hip.
"Um, honestly, I think it's a bad idea. For the record, magic really does hate me." Xander said while looking away with a sigh, as if remembering things from the past before looking up at her with a smile.
"However you're the expert, so if you say it'll be ok, then I'll trust you." Xander stated, somewhat confidently to Zatanna.
Zatanna gave him a blazing smile back, her eyes and her smile seemed to lighten the room and it made Xander gulp seeing how attractive she was in that moment.
"Ok, here we go then. Nothing on this side of the cloth," She stated as she showed one side of the red silk cloth to the audience, "And nothing on this side of the cloth." She finished as she showed the audience the other side of the cloth.
With that Zatanna threw the cloth over Xander's head, covering him fully from head to toe and spilling out to cover the stage around Xander in a circumference of a few feet.
"Now, with a little flourish and a wave of my magic wand…" She finished casting a spell under her breath just as she tapped her cane on where Xander's head was under the cloth.
The cloth fell to the ground as Xander, who had been underneath it, really did disappear.
Picking up the cloth, Zatanna twirled it around her like a matador, showing the audience the Xander was nowhere to be found.
A standing ovation was her reply from the audience as they cheered and whistled at her display of 'illusion.'
Smiling, she gave a little bow before once again holding the cloth up, this time supporting the weight of the silken cape on her cane, making it appear to be a curtain.
"Now, with a bit of a flourish we shall make Xander reappear exactly as he was before!" She stated, again saying a little spell under her breath.
Then, as if moving the cloth out of the way of a charging bull, she swept the cloth curtaining off part of the audience, revealing Xander.
The audience was quiet for a few seconds, and the chirp of a cricket could be heard to come from high in one of the balconies of the theater.
Xander felt a draft, and the audience burst out in laughter.
Zatanna quickly looked at Xander to see why the audience was laughing, and her eyes grew as large as saucers as there, standing right where he was supposed to was Xander.
The only real problem was that he was naked.
Zatanna was too stunned to act, 'Xander was a hunk!' Her thoughts furiously told her as she looked up and down at his naked stunning glory. Muscles that rippled and definition that highlighted his masculinity made up his entire body. 'And his penis! Merlin that sausage is large!' She thought furiously as the blood rushed to her head.
Xander looked out at the audience, trying to figure out why they were laughing. The whole disappearing act had seemed to only take a blink of an eye from when she had covered him with the cloth until when he had reappeared.
Looking around, realizing that he suddenly felt a breeze where no breeze had the right to be, Xander looked down.
"Magic! How I hate thee!" Xander uttered, shaking his fist at the air as he realized he was totally naked. Then realizing that he was standing in front of an entire hooting, wolf whistling and cheering audience he quickly looked around for something to clothe himself with.
Looking at Zatanna, Xander saw that she was staring at him open mouthed and not reacting, as quick as a wink he grabbed the red silk cloth and quickly wrapped it around his lower body.
Blushing, Xander looked around for where he could escape to, at which point he noticed a stage hand furiously ushering him to come back stage where they could hopefully find some clothes for him; at least that is how he interpreted the frantic waving at him that the man wearing all black was doing.
Xander shuffled off stage, attempting not to trip on the long flowing red silken clothe, accompanied by the myriad cat calls from the ladies of the audience and the laughing of the men.
Zatanna shook her head and came out of her stupor as she watched Xander shuffle off of the stage. Realizing that there was no way to top that, she figured she should follow the advice of her old teachers and leave it on a 'high' note.
"Thank you everybody! That's all for tonight. Have a great night!" She shouted as she bowed, and then raised her hands; disappearing in a flash of fire and smoke.
"I am SOoo sorry Xander, I have done that trick a hundred times before and I've never had it come out like that." Zatanna stated as she self consciously shifted her weight from one foot to the other and bit her lip, her eyes shining her sincerity.
Xander tried to be cross with her, he really did. But it was those puppy dog eyes mixed with that biting of the lip that only let him think of how cute she was.
"Well," Xander stated hesitantly for a second before blowing out a breath, "It's ok, I forgive you. Magic really does hate me." He said with a goofy smile, patented over years of use on both Willow and Buffy.
"Besides, it's not every day that a guy can get naked with such a gorgeous woman like yourself." Xander continued, his smile turning into a bit of a smirk.
Funnily enough, it was Zatanna who was blushing now, even though Xander still stood there on the curtained off side of the stage, using both of his hands to hold up the red cloth so that he didn't expose himself again.
She looked down shyly, before looking up at him and into his eyes and smiling. "Ok, thanks for forgiving me. But the least you can do is let me make it up to you, perhaps dinner or at least getting some clothes for you to wear home." The last part was said with a wink that made him in turn blush a bit.
Xander smiled back and thought for a second before answering, "Well, my jacket is out at my table, but I could really do for some pants and a shirt sometime soon."
"Great! And I really am Sorry Xander." Zatanna stated as she walked further into the back of the stage. "Come on back to my dressing room, we will see if any of the stage hands has a spare pair of clothes you can wear until we can get you something better." She stated, taking a moment to gaze at his still exposed chest and muscular shoulders and arms.
Xander followed along, shuffling and kicking the cloth in front of him so he wouldn't trip.
Zatanna lead him out from the backstage area and into the hallways that went under the stage, she tried not to laugh at him as he carefully navigated down the stairs without tripping, but a giggle still slipped out.
He scowled a bit at her, but only half heartedly as he too saw the humor in the situation.
She pointed out a door at the end of the hall that had a big star on it and her name clearly written on the star.
"It's right down there," Zatanna stated with a playful smile, "Think you came make it that far without going naked again?" She finished with a wink.
Xander playfully batted at her with one hand, acting like he was going to grab her, but she stepped back out of reach.
Xander had to quickly return the hand to its duty off holding up the large red silk cloth as his simple action had bared one butt cheek to Zatanna and the rest of the hall of stage hands, most of whom merely laughed at Xander's predicament and the playful banner.
Zatanna lead the way down the rest of the hall, and Xander admired the sway of her hips and the contour of her long legs in the stockings and heels, 'Damn she's hot!' He thought to himself as she opened the door to her changing room.
Xander walked into the room, noticing that there was a comfortable looking red and gold couch with the arm of it right in front of the doorway when you first entered the large VIP dressing room. Multiple stands holding costumes and clothing stood around the room, and a stage mirror with the round lights and a makeup station were against one wall of the room.
Xander turned around to face Zatanna as she closed the door to the room. Looking down, he realized that the cloth covering had partially unrolled; a portion of it laid right at the door and right behind Zatanna.
It was at that moment that Mr. Murphy decided to come pay Xander and Zatanna a visit.
Zatanna turned around from closing the door and took a step into the room with her high heel clad feet, right onto the corner of the slippery silky material.
Zatanna's foot flew out from underneath her as she plummeted face first towards Xander.
Always one to save a lady, even at the cost to his own life and limb, time seemed to slow down to Xander as he acted first and thought later; meaning he let go of the cloth around his waist and reached out to stop Zatanna from crashing to the ground.
Zatanna's forward motion towards the floor was arrested by Xander's hands grabbing her under the armpits of her flailing arms as he attempted to pull her upright, which unfortunately changed Zatanna's motion from a downward one to a forward one.
Time again seemed to speed up as Zatanna crashed straight into Xander, bowling him over backwards, both of them falling over the arm of the couch where Xander and Zatanna bounced for a few seconds as they caught their breath.
Taking a second to realize where they were, both Xander and Zatanna realized their position. In the rush of the accident Zatanna was laying straddling Xander's thighs, Xander's currently very naked thighs.
Blushing and sputtering, Xander attempted to right himself somehow without pushing Zatanna to the floor, but in dropping his cloth covering, it was now entangled around his feet; and silk is a very strong material.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't mean for this to happen…" Xander babbled as he tried to help move Zatanna without putting his hands on one of the places that his little head was telling him he should put his hands.
Zatanna looked down at him for a second, still appearing to be stunned and unaware of Xander's struggles to not touch her yet help her get off of him.
'He is soooo Cute!' The thought flickered through her head, then without really thinking about it she mashed her lips to Xander's and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Xander was startled for a second, but then the little subconscious voices in his head took over.
"Ok boys, we've got our opportunity and we aren't going to miss it! Battle stations! Battle stations, raise the periscope, arm the tubes, and prepare arms for possible boarding." The little voices shouted in the back of his head.
Xander found himself kissing Zatanna back. One hand slid down her back to daringly cup her rear and pull her closer to him, while the other hand came up to trace and caress her cheek before trailing up to knock off her top hat and become entangled in her incredible brunette locks that tumbled around his head.
Knowledge and knowhow that he didn't know he had filtered in from the part of his memories that had come from the costume.
Xander nibbled on her lips before tracing it with his tongue. In answer Zatanna opened her mouth and Xander's tongue lightly flicked and toyed with that of Zatanna's.
Zatanna moaned and used one hand to move around on the floor by the couch before slightly pulling herself away from Xander to point the wand that she had found at the door and yell some sort of gibberish.
It took a second for Xander to realize that she had just said, "Lock and silence the damn door!" backwards, and that was all the time he had before she once again pounced on him hungrily.
His hands massaged her tight rear-end and she continued to moan into his mouth, her pelvis now slowly grinding into his manhood that was fully firm at this point.
Xander continued to kiss her, before hesitating, and then using his superior strength to push her up to an almost sitting position.
"Um, I know this feels like a really bad time to stop." Xander said, biting his lip, "But if we don't stop now, I'm not going to be held accountable for the possible ravishing that my body wants to commit with you." Xander said hesitantly, hoping that this wouldn't ruin his chances.
Zatanna was flustered for a second, but then looked down at him with a smile that he was caring enough to think of her wants before his own. "No, I definitely don't want to stop, I want you too and I'll take you up on that ravishing, thank you very much." She smirked down at him as she gave her pelvis a little twist that made him moan. She attempted to go back to kissing him, but his hands stopped her.
"Um, just so you know, it's kind of embarrassing, but um; I've never done this before." Xander said, a bit humiliated to be telling the truth of his virginal status.
A predatory smile spread across her lips. "You mean, a hunk like you, and I'm your first?" Zatanna asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Um, yeah." Xander stated a bit embarrassed.
"Good! Now help me with these clothes, I'm way too overdressed for these activities." Zatanna said with a wink that immediately brought Xander out of thoughts of his embarrassing announcement.
"Do you care about the buttons?" Xander asked after a second of looking up at her, the nature of female clothing and how to take them off a complete mystery of nature that even Xander Heterodyne's memories couldn't help him with.
"Nope, nothing that a little magic or sewing can't fix later." She stated with a saucy smirk and another wiggle of her hips.
"Right." Xander said, wasting no time in grabbing the fronts of Zatanna's shirt and coat and taking a lightning quick action of tearing the clothing off of her, including her undergarments.
Buttons flew everywhere, and Xander's strength and speed so startled Zatanna that she fell backwards to lay back on his feet, her legs still straddling him.
Sitting up and pulling his feet out from under her, Xander followed Zatanna across the couch, quickly kissing her again and finally being able to untangle his legs from the red silk. Crouching over her, he pulled her towards him in a hungry kiss, she in turn wrapped her naked torso and stocking clad legs around Xander, mashing her chest against his and using the toe of her foot to kick off one of her heels before using the other to repeat the process.
[WARNING FOR LOVE SCENE]
Xander and Zatanna stayed kissing, until he suddenly had the inspiration to take his kisses on a tour of Zatanna. First nibbling and kissing towards her ear, where he lightly nipped the lobe and gave it a slight flick of his tongue, getting a giggle in reply, Xander then kissed down the line of her jaw and down the artery of her neck, inspiring a moan and a growl when he nipped her collar bone.
Slowly, and with breaks to head back up to her lips, Xander kissed his way down her body, keeping his hands caressing and teasing at the same time that his mouth was doing so; in short, he was driving her wild.
He trip finally made it her breasts, where he pushed back a second to just look down at her and how gorgeous she was. The comic books simply didn't do her justice as he slightly flushed skin and aroused nipples, dilated pupils, and pouty lips called to him with such a hunger that he couldn't stand to simply look at her for long; he needed to taste her again.
Smirking at her, he winked, and then dove to lick and nip at one nipple, and then the other.
Apparently Zatanna was ticklish as she giggled and squealed, her little feet pounding on his back as he lavished attention on first one breast and then the other.
It was all fun and games, but Xander's heightened senses told him that something to the south smelled very good.
Continuing his tour, he kissed his way down her torso and across her toned belly and sides, eliciting moans and hisses as he nipped and kissed, even slipped his tongue briefly into her belly button.
Soon he came to her pelvic bone and used his hand to cup the v between her legs with the palm of his hand as he kissed up one leg, then back to the junction, and then up the other leg.
His hand slowly rubbed circles on the silky fabric, the fabric that was now moist and wet with Zatanna's perfume.
Pulling aside her panties, he kissed, and then licked up her soft pink lips. Xander didn't know what he was doing, but it seemed to get the right reaction out of Zatanna as she entangled her fingers through his hair.
Licking and sucking, Xander used his tongue to flick the little nub at the top of her lips, causing Zatanna to cry out in what Xander assumed was pleasure. Liking the reaction he got when he did that, he decided to focus on the nub with the tip of his tongue.
Apparently his tongue had some super speed abilities in addition to the rest of his body, as he slowly picked up the pace; every new degree of speed brought a higher pitched squeal from Zatanna until she was hitting a constant high pitched scream with brief breaks to breath.
Xander was smiling, as he continued to lick her. 'This is fun.' He thought to himself. Having a moment of inspiration, he slowly slipped his finger in and then curled it upwards in a 'come hither' motion.
Feeling a few ridges, Xander tapped the spot once, and that was all it took.
Zatanna's scream cut off in a gasp, her back arched into a backbend supported by her neck, her thighs clamped on to Xander head and her hands grabbed a hold of his hair and didn't let go as she started thrashing about.
Xander couldn't have stopped if he wanted to, not with Zatanna's thighs and hands crushing his head into her as she flailed her torso about, crushing his nose a couple of times.
After about twenty seconds, every muscle in Zatanna went limp and relaxed.
Xander was frightened that he had hurt her, as he looked up at her to make sure she was still breathing.
Sure enough, her chest continued to rise and fall, and her body twitched a bit with the aftershocks of her orgasm.
Xander briefly wiped his mouth with a bit of the red silk clothe and then slid up her body to caress Zatanna's face.
"Um, are you ok? Zatanna, are you alright?" Xander asked as he looked down at Zatanna's closed eyes.
Zatanna's reaction was to smile, her eyes opened and looked into Xander's. Her arms quickly pulled him to her and she kissed him deeply, before letting him go so she could smile up at him.
"Um, wow, um, I'll take that as you are ok." Xander said, not thinking one hundred percent given that most of his blood flow was not orientated around his big head.
"Come here you goof." Zatanna said, her smile taking any sting out of her words as she pulled down Xander towards her body with her legs and arms.
Surprisingly, Xander's aim was better than he knew as his 'eight inch Twinkie' found its mark and slid into Zatanna's warm silken depths.
Xander gasped, wide eyed before looking down at Zatanna from a distance of about six inches.
"Wow, um, it worked." Xander said, his mouth spouting words before his brain could engage.
Zatanna laughed, "Don't speak any more, just kiss me you dork." She stated before pulling him towards her, fully embedding his sheathing his length in her depth.
Though it was a very 'Cordy like' statement, Xander didn't really mind the dork comment as he was finally losing his virginity; the little voices in the back of his head were doing a victory dance.
Slowly, Xander and Zatanna started to roll their hips together, working up a pace where both could merge their bodies together at just the right point to heighten the sensations of squishy goodness.
They started going, harder, lengthening their slides, and after about ten minutes of bliss Xander felt himself getting close.
Somewhere in the back of Xander's now genius level brain, a voice was saying 'hmmmm, there is something we are missing here. Penis in her, check. Thrusting, check. Feels good, Check. Birth control, che…WHOA HORSEY! Sound the alarm! All Halt! Engines in reverse gear!' Xander's brain thought, causing Xander to stop thrusting mid stride.
Xander's sudden stop threw Zatanna for a loop as she attempted to keep thrusting back at him, but his superior strength stopped her.
"Damn it Xander, if you don't' start thrusting again, I'm going to turn you into a toad." She stated with a glare.
Xander looked down at her, a bit shocked as his brain sputtered to try and get the right words to come out of his mouth; his blood was still primarily in the southern hemisphere of his body.
"Um, but I don't want to have a baby right now." Is what came out of his mouth, right before he turned a bit red in the face from what he had said.
Zatanna looked at him for a second, before laughing. The laugh did wonderful things to Xander's penis, things that had him doing long equations of matrix algebra backwards in his head to try and distract himself so that he didn't orgasm inside of her.
"No problem silly." Zatanna stated, before casting a spell that made their loins glow blue and tingle for a second.
"Um, I really hope magic liked me this time." Xander said.
Zatanna just growled at him and took a handful of his hair to pull him back into the action.
They again picked up the pace, matching thrusts until their bodies were making a slapping sound as they pumped together.
As they started going faster and faster, fully thrusting hard into each other, Zatanna muttered that she was getting close; the bands of muscles in her neck started to show as she strained her head back and closed her eyes.
Xander grunted that he was there also, and right after he said it, he felt an additional flow of blood to his penis and his orgasm overcame him.
The heat, fluid and increase in his size was enough to send Zatanna over the edge also, as she latched her legs and arms onto him and pulled him into her so that he was sheathed to the hilt.
They convulsed in each other's arms, moaning and kissing, mindlessly nibbling and biting on each other, lost in their passion.
Finally Xander and Zatanna stopped thrashing about and they relaxed into each other bonelessly.
Xander, understanding that his muscular size was probably heavy in its relaxed state, twisted to the side so that they were still connected together, but now had her on laying on top of him.
Kissing each other one more time, Xander pulled up the red silky cloth and used it as a blanket to cover their naked entwined forms.
After pulling up the sheet, Xander looked down at Zatanna to say something, but saw that her eyes were closed and that she had apparently fallen asleep; still snuggled into his chest with him inside of her.
Xander smiled to himself, laid his arms over her back, and slowly fell asleep also.
[END OF LOVE SCENE]
Xander woke up the next morning when Zatanna flinched in her sleep, she was also making the cutest little puppy dog like snoring sounds.
Xander couldn't help it and chuckled at how cute she was. The up and down motion of his chest moving in tune with his laugh woke the sleeping beauty.
Xander saw her eyes open and look up at him from her place on his chest.
"Good morning gorgeous." Xander stated as he smiled down at her.
Zatanna yawned for a second, before giving him a good morning also, really liking to look up at his cute smiling face.
"Um, so, come here often?" Xander stated, at a loss as to what to say in a situation like this; he'd been a virgin just a few hours before after all.
Zatanna laughed at him, "You goof! Well I certainly came here often last night," she said gleam in her eye and a naughty little wiggle of her body against his.
Xander's 'Twinkie cake of doom' started to grow again as the blood flow headed south; causing the appendage that had fallen out of her during the night to poke her belly.
"Mmmm, looks like somebody wants a round two." Zatanna said with an evil look in her eye before going in to kiss Xander.
Just then, a ringing came from the pocket of Zatanna's torn tuxedo.
Zatanna jumped off of Xander and flew across the room towards the scattered remains of her clothes, where she frantically dug through them until she pulled out a red compact communications device of some sort.
Holding it close to her face, she talked into it, "Zatanna here, what is your situation tower?" She stated.
"This is Batman; we have a situation southern Mexico that needs your assistance. A rouge magic user who claims to be bringing about the return of the Aztec Empire is using the pyramids to power some sort of magical shield. We need your help to break through before the rest of the team can come in."
"Right." Zatanna said, biting her lip and looking to where Xander was still laying on the couch, looking at her and the communicator with a bit of a knowing smile that unnerved her for some reason.
"Am I… interrupting something?" Batman's voice stated from the communicator; Xander caught the inflection in the voice as the closest thing that Batman would ever say that could possibly resemble a joke.
Zatanna blushed a deep red before rapidly telling the communicator, "Um, no, nothing at all. Give me five minutes and then transport me up to the tower. Zatanna out." She stated, closing the communicator with a hasty snap.
Xander merely chuckled, "Well there goes round two I guess." He stated with an understanding smile.
Zatanna hesitated for a second, tempted to pounce Xander again, before hastily remembering what she really needed to be done.
Grabbing an outfit that was still in one piece, Zatanna threw on her clothes and grabbed her hat and cane.
Xander just laid there smiling at her and watching her jiggle and bounce around the room as she got ready, it truly was an enjoyable site.
As she threw on her top hat and pulled her coat snug, she leaned over the couch and gave him one last big kiss. Putting her hand to his ear, she 'pulled' a card out of it and presented it to him.
"Call me some time, I really had a great time, and I'm really sorry but I have to go." She stated, a bit of vulnerability shining through her eyes as she looked down at him.
"Well, if we are ever in the same area again, I'll make sure to look you up." Xander said with a nod and a smile.
"I look forward to it," Zatanna answered back with a huge smile and a bit of bounce in her step, right before the shimmering light appeared and she was transported up to the Justice League's Tower in space.
Xander, now left alone in the backstage changing room, looked around for a second before it dawned on him.
"Well crap. Now what am I supposed to do about clothes?" Xander griped.
AN: Well, there's a partial answer to the poll from last chapter. Going to be staying in the Justice league verse for the time being. Going to see what comes along from there as I don't have an ending to this story firmly thought out at the moment. I'm writing this purely for the fun of it, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Cheers!