It was wet, that was the first thought that entered Faust's head as he stood alongside a group of other capes, villains, heroes, rogues? It didn't matter now, they would be forced to work together in an desperate attempt to save their home. He glanced to their current leader, Miss Militia.
"Leviathan is five minutes out, if you have anything you need to do, any family you need to say goodbye to, I suggest doing it now". The PRT aligned cape waited for a few moments, waiting for anyone to do anything and when nobody did, she nodded.
Faust, Aleister's mind returned to what he had only done a few minutes ago, his family's home was to fragile and he couldn't set up enough protection in time, so he had resorted to hypnotizing them and dropping them off in his workshop, where Medea could keep them safe. When the attack ended, he'd transport them to an Endbringer Shelter and hopefully none would be the wiser.
"We need to do this quickly, or there won't be a bay to return to. If you can survive in water, you'll be one of our main fighters, everyone will also be...".
Faust tuned her out, he had his own plans here and as powerful as Leviathan was, as long as he remained in the Faust Suit, he could simply use Flash Air to get more oxygen to breath.
Medea chanted quickly, dozens of magic circles forming around her, some moving onto the walls of her and Aleister's workshop, enforcing their defenses, others were scrying spell, to observe the battle against Leviathan and if need be intervene to save Aleister.
She glanced to a sleeping group, her master's family would never know what happened here, they'd believe they were simply in an Endbringer Shelter with Aleister this entire time. A mercy compared to what countless others would suffer.
She noted how the storms raged, even from a distance Leviathan's presence could be felt, it made her curious just what type of creature they were truly dealing with, she sensed no divinity, but something within her nature as a Heroic Spirit screamed this wasn't the work of humanity ether.
The Caster focused her scrying spells on the distance, finally getting her first look at Leviathan. It was certainly large... And fast, she wouldn't compare it to Atalanta, but it was certainly faster then most Servants. The water moved with it, an absurd level of hydrokinesis.
Hydrokinesis, not magecraft or magic, it was not a Divine Authority, it was an ability that related to science, not supernatural.
Medea paid closer attention to the battle that was now beginning, pushing down the worry forming in her chest at the thought of Aleister getting hurt.
Move, leap, kick, run.
Cyber's current state could not be called living, simply a very advanced computer, so she could only understand things she had been programmed with. She needed to avoid taking critical damage, and if she found the corpse of a cape, she was to use a Mystic Code given by Medea to transport them to the workshop.
Occasionally, she would attempt to find Faust in order to keep him safe, but all attempts so far had resulted in failure, there was simply to much going on.
Rain came down like bullets, waves surged with the force of a train, and through it all, the silhouette of a massive creature could be seen running through it all, any cape unfortunate enough to become Leviathan's attack.
A piece of instinct broke through the mechanical programming that controlled Cyber, fear, fear of an apex predator among apex predator's. But her programming quickly suppressed it.
She returned to her work, programming demand she do her duty.
FB watched over dozens of points of view, camera's, drones, anything she could get her digital fingers on. Usually the idea of hacking Dragon's tech was absurd, but even the world's greatest Tinker had limits, she couldn't afford to waste time on a hacker simply using her drones to observe things.
The AI did notice a few curious things, Dragon was reacting to fast, the human mind could only react so fast but the parahuman easily surpassed what the brightest of humanity was capable of. A few options went through FB's mind, perhaps Dragon had modified her body, or she had a secondary power that sped up her reaction speed, maybe she was using VI's? There were dozens of options and FB made a note to send this to Creator.
She felt a thrill travel through her when she noted the death of a Demi-Servant, Armsmaster had charged at Leviathan with a new weapon and Gram, but he was crushed under the force of Leviathan's claws. She did note how his new weapon had actually hurt Leviathan, an impressive feat.
Looking over the other Demi-Servants she was aware of, she noted that Assassin, Rider, and Berserker were not here. Archer was in the battle, but had been taken away for medical attention after losing a leg, it would only take a few minutes for her to return to the battlefield.
Vista was near completely unharmed, her Demi-Servant status and already formidable abilities, along with unknown to her the aid of Faust, had prevented anything happening to her.
And finally... FB could've grinned if she could when she saw what remained of Skitter, the girl had been turned into a bloody mess by a massive wave of water. Two Demi-Servants dead, and potentially more in the future, this Endbringer attack was turning out to be very useful.
Faust was breathing heavily as he quickly consumed a Senzu Bean, feeling the ache across his body fade away as his energy was restored. Vibranium armor or not, being thrown around and near constantly drowned could be exhausting.
He glanced to his side, a small group of capes were resting within the remains of a boat from the dockyard, but his focus was on the small form of Vista, who looked like she'd faint on her feet. It was clear she was running low on energy, she didn't have magic circuits and whatever her powers were doing to supply her energy could only go so far. He considered giving her a Senzu Bean, he needed her alive to take Rhongomyniad from her.
No, maybe if she was by herself it'd work, but he doubted Glory Girl would let him give her what seemed to be Biotinker drugs, of course... He felt a grin cross his face at the opportunity before him.
"If your willing to accept, I have some energy pills, a creation of an associate". He offered a handful of pills he had quickly created with alchemy, they WOULD restore energy, but they'd also make them drowsy and pass out.
"...Normally I'd deny it, but I seriously doubt your crazy enough to do something evil during an Endbringer attack". Glory Girl despite her dislike of villains took a pill, and encouraged by her, the other parahumans around her quickly began grabbing pills, including Vista.
"Ugh, tastes like crap, but they work". Vista blinked as a wave of drowsiness hit her. "H-huh...?".
The various parahumans began fainting as Faust grinned, approaching the group, he only really wanted Vista, but the rest he certainly wouldn't deny taking. He knew it'd be quickly figured out he was the one who kidnapped these capes, but that was fine, Faust would just need to disappear for a while.
Capes captured.
Vista - Captured.
Glory Girl - Captured.
Shadow Stalker - Captured.
Gallant - Captured.
Laserdream - Captured.
Wow we are, getting SUPER lucky this chapter, almost constant successes, along with getting Vista? Amazing luck here.
Medea frowned as she kept watching the battle against Leviathan, things had been going very well, a bit to well to be honest. Saber and Caster dead, Lancer captured, Archer injured, and dozens of random capes captured. But still, she felt the worst had yet to happen.
She had cast dozens of spells to try and figure out what she could about Leviathan, and she had noted a few things. First, it wasn't regenerating, instead it seemed to be replacing any parts that got damaged with new flesh, space-warping of some type? But where was it getting the extra material from?
Medea was to far away to investigate further, she could only get so much using scrying and it'd be too chaotic up close to get any investigating done.
Looking at the battle closer, it seemed Leviathan was starting to tire, so the battle would hopefully be over soon.
FB took one last glance across the battlefield, Leviathan was retreating finally, the battle had been a success... If you ignored the blood staining the sea and pieces of Brockton Bay having sunk into the sea. She took a final note of everything.
Archer had disappeared after being healed by Panacea, but was still alive with how the Heroic Spirit hadn't returned to the Holy Grail. Kaiser and a couple others from the Empire had died, Shielder of New Wave, Uber and Leet, an unknown bomb Tinker, Dauntless, and... Who the hell was Browbeat?
Lung had been freed by the PRT to fight Leviathan and was now roaming the streets, along with a few other captured criminals, among them being Daji who Creator had recently defeated in his Leonardo identity, she made note of this in case the kitsune-like cape sought revenge.
Assassin hadn't been seen once, but there was some hints to Rider around the bay. Apparantly, a young child had been seen riding around on a snow white beast with scales... A dragon.
FB looked through her files, Creator had given her knowledge of various Servants and there were a few Rider's who matched, but she would have to speak to Creator to fully figure it out.
She quickly sent a command to Cyber to return to the Workshop, while she retreated from the battlefield herself.
Aleister sighed as he finished taking off the Faust Mystic Code, the upper part of his house had been completely wrecked, nothing important was lost as he kept it in his basement, but it was still annoying. He looked across everything he'd managed to get, two Demi-Servants down, Vista captured, some random capes captured, and his family was safe, soon to be teleported to an Endbringer Shelter and hypnotized to think he and they spent the entire attack there.
Honestly, he was exhausted and just needed some sleep, Medea had reassured him she could handle everything, so he was going to get a little sleep, leaning back into his chair and feeling sleep begin to take him...
Only to blink confused as his exhaustion disappeared and he found himself on a beach, staring down he found himself in a pair of swimming trunks, what the hell?
"My Champion, you did not think we would not speak after such events?". A familiar sultry voice spoke as he quickly turned around to see...
...Paradise. Gaia smiled at him seductively, and he felt his dick start to rise.
"Normally I would quiet appreciate such a show of desire, but we have things to speak of My Champion". The entity spoke and as much as he wanted to disagree, Aleister knew it was smarter to listen to the entity.
"I assume its about the recent Endbringer attack?". He asked and she nodded. "I'm guessing this isn't going to end in me getting a new Blessing...".
"You will receive a blessing, after all, Faust's acts will be known world wide soon, parahumans willing to break the Endbringer truce are rare and getting away with it? You'll have a lot of people after your head soon". Gaia grinned, oh this was going to be good. "But what I truly want to speak to you about is the Endbringers, those creatures... I want them gone".
"As... Much as I agree, I'm afraid I'm nowhere near the level of defeating an Endbringer". Aleister knew his own strength well, even with Medea, Cyber and FB, he was nowhere near close to being capable of taking on an Endbringer.
"Agreed, and I don't expect you to be capable of such a thing anytime soon, but there is something you can do... The Fallen, those fools who worship those abominations as gods. Destroy or convert them into followers, I don't care which, just do it and I will reward you greatly...". Gaia gave another seductive smile while the supervillain took a few seconds to remeber what he knew of The Fallen.
There were a few things he knew, The Fallen worshiped Endbringers, they encouraged inbreeding to produce children with powers, and one of the groups shared the same last name as him which had... Not been pleasant growing up, his family had no connections to The Fallen and it honestly pissed him off. They were also batshit insane, with the Mathers kidnapping dozens of wards and capes in order to brainwash them.
"Well I suppose I'd need to deal with them at some point... I'll look into dealing with them, but it may take some time". He had every intention to deal with The Fallen, but he needed to focus on his home base first.
"Very well... Now, it'd be a shame to waste this dream wouldn't it?". Gaia laid down across her beach towel (Where it had come from Aleister had no idea, but since this was a dream apparently...). "I'll allow you to be in control this time, do try to last My Champion".
NSWF begins here, skip to the voting if you want to avoid it. Again, I am not very experienced writing these.
Not needing to be told twice, Aleister ripped off his swimming trunks and approached the beautiful seductress, his left arm reaching out and squeezing one of her breasts, Gaia smiled as he began stripping her of her bikini.
"Oh? I had thought you'd- Gurk!". The entity was not prepared for him to suddenly shove his dick between her lips, but she quickly adapted and began licking and sucking, amused with how much lust her Champion had built up.
Aleister had no interest in dirty talk, his focus was on the beautiful woman before him, he quickly pulled her off his cock and flipped her over, staring at the completely shaved pussy.
"My my, your certainly eager My Champion, to so easily take advantage of a defenseless maiden like myself...". Gaia leaned forward, her breasts against his chests. "Well? What are you waiting for, take meEEEEEE!".
She cut herself off with a scream of pleasure as Aleister's dick pierced through her pussy, moans coming off her with every thrust. He kept increasing the speed with which he thrusted, eventually activating his Reinforcement to keep up with Gaia's seemingly endless sexual desire.
But like all good things, it eventually came to an end. He felt his ejaculation coming, and not desiring to see if whatever the fuck Gaia was could get pregnant, he pulled out and sprayed across her stomach, falling onto his ass after from exhaustion.
"Well, I suppose that was acceptable for only our second time together... But next time I expect better". Gaia waved her hand, the cum across her body vanishing and replaced by a casual blue dress and black heels.
"Well sorry for not being able to keep up with a sex goddess". Aleister replied back, he noted how his clothes had returned to the ordinary suit he usually wore. "Any chance your willing to reveal what you actually are now?".
"Get a few more Blessings and I may consider it".
Welp we've had a LOT of luck this chapter, like god I think we used up a couple chapters worth of luck here. Two things to vote on, what Blessings we want from Gaia and then whatever ordinary actions you want to do.